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DR. CHASE'S RECIPES; 

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IMOMATIOj^ FOR EYERYBODY: 

AN INVALUABLE COLLECTION OF 

ABOUT P:iGnT nUNDIlED 

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llcrrhants Grocers, Haloon^Kpeporn, Pbyslclans, I)ru&?s:tsts TanruTs 

Shoe Makers, flarncss Makers, ralniers. Jewelers, Blacksmlibs, 

Tliiners, (•'uiiMiiiliis, Farriers, Barbers, Bakers, J>jers, 

Ueuovaters, Farmers, aud Families dienerally, 

TO WHICH HAVK OEEN ADDED 

^ national Troatmont of Pleurisy, Inflammation of the Lungs. 

ftod other Inflammatory Diseases, and also lor General 

Female Debility and Irregularities: 

^ 111 arraiisfcd in Cliclr A|i|»ro|iriatc Dcpai'itiietitfi. 

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iVvW'^ BY A. 'W. CHASE. M. D.. 



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Entered according to Act of Congres-^, in tlie Year 1807, by" 

A. W. CHASE, M. I)., 

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for 
tlie Eastern District ol JMicliijjan. 

Fifty-ThlaU Emxiox— Four Hu.>dred A^•D Five Thousa>'d— 
English and Gekman. 



PREFACE 

TO THB TENTH EDITION. 



Iv brining a penriaBent work, or one that is designed so to 
De, before the public, it is expected of tlie Author that he gtv6 
his reasons for such publication. If the reasons are founded in 
truth, the people consequently seeing its necessity, will appreci- 
ate its advantages, and encourage the Author by quick and ex- 
tensive purchases, they alonQ,beinij the judges. Then: 

First. — ]\Iuch of the information contained in "Dr. Chase's • 
Hcceipes; or Information for Every botly,'' has never before 
been published, and is adapted to ever}" day use. 

8kcond.— The Author, after having carried on the Drug and 
Grocery business for a number of years, read Medicine, after 
being thirty-eight years of age, and graduated as a Physician 
lo qualify himself for the work l^e was undertaking; for, having 
oeen familiar with some of the Recipes, adapted to these 
oranches of trade, more than twenty years, he began in " Fifly- 
six," seven 5"ear& ago, to publish them in a Pamphlet of only 
A few pages, since which time he has been traveling between 
New York and Iowa, selling the work and Prescribing, eo that 
flf) to tnis time, " Sixty-three," over twenty-three tlumsand cop- 
jes have f^^n sold. His travels have brought him in contact 
with ail "Masses of Professional and Business men, Slechanics, 
Farrif rs. and Farmers, thus enabling hira to obtain from thera, 
unvf additional items, always having had his note book with 
^ini, s^nd whenever a prescription has been given before him, 
K n remark made, that would have a practicdl bearing, it hai 
necn noted^ and at the first opportunity te^ied^ then if good, 
vntt<in out in plmn language expressly for the next edition of 



this work.. In this way this mass of Infonnatioa has been col- 
lected, and ought to take away an objection which some persons 
have raised: "It is too much for one man to know!'* becjiiise 
tney did nol realize that the work had been made up fromothert 
as well as the Authcr'a actual everi/ day expejiencA^, instt^ad of 
from untried books. Yet from the nature of some of the Kecipea, 
one has occa5iv>nal]y found its way into some of the earlier edi- 
tions, which have needed revision, or to be entirely dropped 
This, with a desire to add to the various Departments, at every 
edition, has kept us from having it Stereotyped until the present, 
tenth edition. 

But now, all being w^hat we desire ; and the size of the work 
being such that we cannot add to it without increasing the price 

we have it Stereotyped, and send it out, just w^hat we ex* 
pect, and are willing it should remain. 

Third. — Many of the Recipe brtoks publislied are very large, 
ccmtaining mtich useless matter, only to increase the number, 
consequently costing too much — this one contains only about 
eight hundred recipes, upon only about four hundred diflereni 
subjects, aU (^f which are valuable in daily, practical life, and at 
a very reasonable price — many of them are witliout arrange- 
ment — this one is arranged in regular Departments, all of a class 
being together — many of them are without remark, or explana- 
tion — this one is fully explained, and accompanied with remarks 
Upon the various subjects introduced by the Uecipes under con- 
iideration — those remarks, ex]>lai^.ations, and suggestions accom- 
panying the Recipes, are a special feature of this work, making 
it worth double its cost as a reading book, even if there was not 
a prescription in it 

FoiTUTH.—The remarks and explanations are in large type, 
widlst the prescriptive and dc^onptive parts are in a little smaller 
type, which enables any one to see at a glance just what they 
wish to find 

FrFTH.—It is a well known fact that many unprincipled per 
gona go around "gulling" the people by selling single IlecipeJ* 
for exor))itant prices. Tiie Author found a thing, callmg hiip 



•elf & man, in Battle Creek, Mich., selling a Washing-Fluid 
Recipe for two dollars, which he obtained of gome ; but if h« 
could not obtain that, he would take twe sJdllings^ or anj other 
sum between them. A merchant gave a horse for the " Wliito 
Cement" Recipe. The hue Mr. Andrews, of Detroit, Mich., 
ghve t/iree huiidred (//>^^r.s for a Recipe, now improved and iu 
(liis work, to cure a bone spavin upon a race mare of his. He 
f 3moved the spavin with it and won the anticipated wager with 
tier. The Author has, himself, paid from twenty-five to fifty, 
and seventy-five cents, and one to two, three five, and eight dol- 
lars for single items, or Recipes, hoping thereby to improve hia 
work ; but often findmg that he had much heiter ideas already 
embodied therein. 

The amount paid for iuibrmation in this work, and for testing 
by experiment, together with traveling expenses, and cuts used 
in illustrating it, have reached over two thousand dollars, and 
all tor the purpose of making a book worthy to be found in 
"Everybody's'* library, and to prevent such extortions in the 
plaice of Recipes. Yet any single Recipe in the work which a 
person may wish to use^ will often be found worth many times 
liic price of the book, perhaps the lives of those you dearly love, 
by having at hand the necessary information enabling you to 
huniedi<Ltely apply the means within your reach, instead of giv- 
ing time for disease to strengthen, whilst sending, perhaps miles, 
For a physician. Much pain and sutfering, aiso, will ofleu be 
saved or avoided, besides the satisfaction of knowing how man J 
ihmgs are made which you are constantly using, and also being 
ftble to avoid man}' things which you certainly would awid^ if 
fou knew how they were made. 

Sixth.— It will be observed that we have introduced a number 
of Recipes upon some of the subjects; this adapts the work t« 
All circumstances and places; the reason for it is this; we have 
become acquainted with them in our practice and journeyings, 
and know that when the articles cannot be obtainc-d for one 
way, they may be for some other way ; as also that one pre- 
scnption is better for some than for other persons; theiefore, 
we give the variety that all may be benefitted aa much as posai- 



fill pa£FAci 

ble. For instance, there are twenty ditfereni prescripti^iw nA 
diflerent diseases, and conditions of the eye ; there are also « 
dozen diSereni linimeDts, &c., etc. ; yet the Author feeis we)l 
assured that the most perfect satisfaction will be experienced in 
them as a whole. And although it could not be expectc«! that 
special advantages ot particular Recipes could be ponited out 
to any great extent, yet the Author must be induh^ed in retVTring 
to a few, in the various Departments. All, or nearly all, Mer 
chants and Grocers, as also most Families, will be more or le^s 
benefited by the directions for making or preserving butter, pre- 
serving eggs, or fruit, computing intorest, making vinegar, and 
keeping cider |>alatable, &c. In ague sections of coutniry, none 
should be without the information on this subject; and in fact, 
tliere is not a medical subject introduced but what will be found 
more or less valuable to every one; even Physicians will be 
more than compensated in its perusal; -whilst Consumptiva. 
Dyspeptic, Iliieumatic, and Fever patients ought, by ail means, 
to avail themselves of the advantages here pointed out. The 
treatment in Female Debility, and tht observations on the 
Changes in female life are such that every one of them over 
thirteen or fourteen years of age should not be without thi? 
work. The directions m Pleurisy and other Inflammat.jry dis- 
■ eases cannot fail to benefit every family into whose hands the 
book shall fall. 

The Good Samaritan Liniment, W6 do not believe, has its 
equal in the world, for comn\on uses, whilst there are a numliei 
of other liniments equally well adapted to particular ca.ses. 
And we would not undertake to raise a family of children witb 
out our Whooping Cough Syrup and Croup Remedi«iS, knowing 
their value as we do, if it cost a hundred dollars to obtain them 
Tanners and Shoemakers, Painters and Blacksmiths, Tinnera 
a.nd Gunsmiths, Cabinet Makers, Barbers and Baken will find 
Ih their various Departments more than enough, in single reci- 
pes, to compensate them for the expense of the work ; ind Far- 
ners and Farmers who deal in horses and cattle, will o^.en find 
that Department to save a hundred times its cost in sinjrlo cases 
of disease. 

A gentleman recently called at my house for one of the hooka. 



FEKtAOl. Ul 

filing: *'I have come ten miles out of my way to get it, for 1 
Blaid over night with a farmer, w)io had one, and fcad been ben- 
efitted more than $20, in curing a horse by its directions," A 
gentleman near this city says he had paid out dollars aRer dol- 
lars to cure a horse of spavin, without benefit, as directed by 
other books, of recipes; but a few shillings, as directed by ihm^ 
cured the horse. Another gentleman recently said to me: 
* Your Eye Waiter is worth more than $20." I couhl till pages 
of similar statements which have come to my knowledge since 
1 commenced the publication of this work, but must be ccmtent 
Ijy asking all Xo look over our References, which have been vol- 
untarily accumulating during the seven years in which the 
work has been in growing up to its present size and perfection; 
antl the position in society, of most of the persons making these 
staic^ments is such, many of which are entire strangers to the 
Author and to <iach other, tliat any person can see that no pos- 
(jible Ci)mpncity cotild exist between us, even if we desired it 

Families will find in the Baking, Cooking, Coloring and Mis- 
cellaneous Departments, all they will need, without tlie aid of 
siny other "Cook Book;" and the Washiug-Kluid, whic^h we 
have used at every washing except two for nearly eight years, 
is wiirth to ever}'' family of eight or ten [H*rs<»ns, ten timetr the 
cost of the book, yearly, saving both in labor and wear of 
ch)thes. 

Sevknth.— Many of the articles can be gathered from garden, 
fielder woods, an«l the others will always be luund with Drug- 
gists, and most of the preparations will cost only tivm one-half 
to as low as one-id rf>eenth as much as to purchase them already 
mailc ; and the only certainty, now-a-daya, of uavmg a good 
at tide, is to make it ycmrself. 

Finally.— There is one or two things ftiet about this book ; 
It is the bitrirest humbug of the day; or it is the best work of 
the kind, published in the English language. If a careful peru- 
sal does not satisfy all that it is not tJie first, but that it w t?ie last^ 
then will the Author be willing to acknowledge that Testing, 
Experimenting, Labor, Travel and Stu«iy, to tie •>f no account in 
qualifying a man for such a work, especially when that work 
h»a been the long cherished object of his life, for a laating bene- 



t PB.£fAOB 

fit to hi* f-^llow crealires, 8h\ing Ihem from exiortu>n^ In buyinf 
single lecipes^and alio i^v.i.g them a reliable work, for every 
emergency, more th kD fo' tus own pecuniary benefit. Were it 
not so, 1 should have ^epl vuc work smaller as heretofore, for 
the eighth edition of tw^o hundred and twenty- four pages when 
handsoD.ely bound sold for One Dollar, but in this edi- 

li.)n you get a Dollar's worth of book, even if common reading 
matter, besides the mobt reliable practical information, by vvhict 
you will often save, not only dollars and ce?itH, but relieve differ- 
ing and prolong life. It is, in fact, a perfect mass of the most 
valuable methods of accomplishing the things spoken of, an 
Encyclopedia upon the various branches of Science and Art, 
treated ot in the work, which no family can afford to do with- 
out; indeed, young and old, "Everybody's" book. And the 
"Taxes" nor "Times" should be, for a moment, argued against 
the purchase of so valual»le a "wark, esjiecially wlien tee o^'isure y(m 
that the boitk is Hold only by Traveling Agenta, that all may hare a 
chance to purchafie ; for if left at the Bocfk Stores^ or by Advertise- 
ment only, not One in Fifty would ever see it. 

Some persons object to buying a book of Recipes, as they are 
constantly receiving so many in the newspapers of the day, 
but if they had all that this book contains, scattered through a 
number of years of accumulated papers, it would be wont 
mo^e than the price of this work to have them gathered together, 
caretuliy arranged in their appropriate departments, witli an 
alphat)etical inaex, and handsomely bound; besides the advan 
tage ot tb v: if having pjiesed under the Author's carefully ;/rwn- 
ing and grafting hand. 

"To uprooi error and do good should be the first and higbcfll 
aspiration of every intelligent being. He who labors to pro- 
mote th. physical perfection of his race — he who strives to makf 
mankina intelligent, healthy, ana happy— cannot fail to have 
reflected on his owt) bouI the benien smiles of those whom ho 
has been ihe instrument of benefitting." The Author has re- 
cievcd too many expresRion« of gratitude, thankfulness, ana 
favor, in regard to the value of " Dr. Chase's Recipes; or Infor 
mation for Everybody," to doubt in the least, the truth of tnt 
foregoing quot&iion: and trusts *4jat the following quotation 



EMty not bo eel down to ** Egotigm** or " IMgotry,*' when be giyet 

'i as the gcymmiTtp reason for the continuiiil and permaneal pub' 
Uoation of the work ; 

♦* i live to /<iarw tht?ir »ncTry, who iniffpr©<i for my sak* ; 

To BiniiiHl* tht*U' fljlory, aD<1 follnv* in UWit w«.k«» ; 
Barih, pvifxiMts^, manyt>, Hfi^Hrt. ajiil uutUn (if aU Ktjoa, 

WhoKe decda crowa Hirfliijry's pagMh, and Time's greet rolninft m&k* 

•• I live for thng« who love m«, for thos« who know m© trn«j 
For tli^ h^airen that «TTxil<irt above m«?, and awajt« my Kj.inl too • 

For the caa,Hf that Lacks asHisl«j3ce, for tJie wroR^ that net^ds recriHtaQOtt. 
JTor the future in the diytaace, and the good that I can do," 

May these reasons speedily become th<3 governing principle* 
Inroughout the world, especially with all those who have taken 
upon themselves the vows of our "Holy Religion;" knowing 
that it is to those ordi/ who begin to love God, and right actions, 
her€, with whom the glories of Heaven shall ever begin. Wcr« 
th'cy thus heeded, we should no longer need coroborating testi- 
mony to our statements. Now, however, we are obliged t» 
array every point before the people, as a Miliar ^ that they may 
judge ujulerstandinglt/, even in matters of th»3most viUil inipor- 
wance to themselves; consequently we must l»e excused for this 
/cngthy Preface, Explanatory Index, and extended ReferenceiJ 
following it. Yet, that there are some who will let the work g^ 
by them as one of the " Humbugs of the day," notwithstanding 
all that has or might be said, we have no doubt; but we beg to 
refer such to the statement amongst our References, of the Rev. 
C. P. Nash, of Muskegon, Mich., who, although he allowed it 
thus to pass him, could not rest satisfied when he saw the relior 
biUty of the work purchased by his lesn incredulous neighbors ; 
then if you wiU, let it go by ; but it is hoped that all purc?iaser$ 
may have sufficient confidence in the work not to allow it to 
lay idle ; for, that the designed and greatest possible amount of 
good shall be accomplished by it, it is only necessary that it 
Bhould be generally r'^dueed^ and dail^ used^ is the positive 
toowled^ of the 

AUTHOR 



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%fKRcn ants' and uroci:rs* dspartmknTc 

PAOiS. 

Lai? ing Pow^lera, Wlth<nU Drugs, 5€ 

liuttiir; to rrcstTveatiy Lfinrfn of Tinie — Bntter M.-ik- 
ini:; niriM-tinns for f>.'iiryTtu;n — Butter; Storing; liie 

lll'iiois Prairie Farnu-rs Meliiod, 40-41 

Burnirii; Fliii-.i 44 

CoinitL'riell Money; Seven Rules ff)r Dett^elTrsg, 46-4? 

EgL'-s; to Preserve for Winter Use — K?iglisl) Patented 
Method— J. \\\ Coo])er, M. D.'s Meliiod of Keeping 

and S)n})]>ing Game Eggs, 42-44 

Fruits; to Keep Wiihoui Loss of Color or Flavor, 41 

Oont-y; Dc.inestic — Cuba Honey— Exeellenl Uuney — 

Prennnni Honey 49-50 

iDteresJl; Computing by one I\Iultiplieation and one Di- 
vi8i(m.al any Hate I-er Cent — Method of Computing 

l>y a Single Multiplieation 45-46 

Inks; [Muck Copying or Writing Fluid — Common I>lack 
— lied; The Very Best — 151ue — Indellible — Ink Pow- 
der; niaek,....;... 47-48 

t^f^djes, Without Fruit 50 

Mouth Glue, for Torn Paper, Notes, &c,, 50 

Vinegar, in Three Weeks — in Barrels witliont Trouble 
— From Sugar, Drippings from Sugar Hogsheadis, ifce., 
—From Acetic Acid and Molasses — From Apple Ci- 
der — In Three Days, Without Drugs — C^uick Process 
by Standing upon Shavings, 3^-40 

SALOON DEPARTMENT, 

Apple Cider; to Keep Sweet with but Tritiing Expense 
—To Prepare for Medicine — Artiricial Cidef\ or Cider 
Wiriiont Apples; to M-ike in Ki'i!:s or to Ijutile, or ip 
RMrrt'ls, for Long Keeping, wuh Directions xVbout 

Sldpfung, 51 54 

A'.Vtion of Sugar or Candy on the Teeth, 51^ 

A.le ; Home Brewed, Litnv it is Mride, . 63 



0«erB ; Rool — Bpruce, or Aromatic lieer — Lemon- -liijn- 
ger — Philadciphia— Patent Gas— Corn ; without Yeast 

— Birorig iiaer ; English, improved, 61-68 

Ck)h)rUii: for Wines, 74 

Cream Soda ; using C'ow's Cream for Fountains — Cream 

btxla ; with a Ft»untain, 67 

Cream Nectar ; Imperial, , . 64 

Ginger Pop, , 65 

Ice Cream— Ice Cream ; very Cheap, , 6(M'7 

Lavvton Blackberry ; its CurtivHtii>n, 72 

I>emv>uade ; to carry in the P<x,Ket, 60 

Molasses Candy and Pop Corn Bails, , 58-5€ 

Oyster Soup,. / 58 

Persian Sherbet, m 

Porter, Xla or Wine ; to prevent Flatness in pari3 o! 

battles, for the invalid, 64 

Stomach Bitters ; equal to Ilostetters, for one-fourth it3 

cost, and Schiedam Schna[)p8 Exposed, 74 

Bharn Champagne ; a purely Temperance Drink, 65 

Spanish Gingerette, 6d 

B<)da Water ; witLout h. Machine for Bottling, 57 

Syrups; to make tlie various Colurs — Syrups Aj'tificial; 
*^ various Flavors, as Raspberry, Strawberry, Pinc- 
Apple, Sarsapahlia, &c. — Lemon Syrup; Common- 
Lemon Syrup ; to save the loss of Lemons — Soda 

Syrup ; with or without FountainSj 64-67 

Tripe ; to pre|)are and Pickle, 63 

Wines ; Currant, Cherry, Elderlierry, and other Berry 
Wines — Rhubarb, or English Patent Wine — Tomato 
Wine— Wine from white Currants — Ginger Wine, — 
Blackberry vViue — Port Wine— Cider Wine — Grape 

Wine, 67-74 

leasts; Hop Yeast— Bakers' Yeast — Jug Yeast; with- 
out Yeast to start with — Yeast Cake, 65-61 

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 

Alcohol in Medicine, preferable to Brandy, Rum or Gin, 
of the present day, connected with Spiritual Facts, . 75-7'« 

Ague Medicines ; Dr. Krider's Ague Pills — Ague Bittera 
— Ague Powder — Ague Mixture, without^Quinine — 
Ague Cured for a Penny — Ague Anodyne — Tonic 
Wine Tincture, a positive cure for Ague without Qui- 
nme, 77-«0 

Asthma; Remedies, Ig9 

Alterative Syrup, or Blood Purifier — Alterative ; very 
strong — Alterative Cathartic, powder— Alterative for 
Diaeaaes of the Skin — Aiterative, Tonic and Cathar- 
tic, Bittern. liS^lia 



Anmciai Skin, for Jium?., Br aisiia, Abraskins. &c., Proof 
against Waier, 1^1 

Adhtisive P' aster, or StUve, for Deep Wounds, Cuts, ikc, 

ill place }' L-itiU:iies,. 103 

IL Cure foj Uninkeuness. . . , * 140 

Anodyne Pills, li^ 

Bread-Tea, used in taking Elmet.ics, lOtI 

i>ateniau's Pectoral ! )rops, 134 

Balsams ; Dr. li. W. Ilutehin's Indiau Healing, formerly, 
i^eckhara's Cough B;dsam — Dr. Mitchers ilalsam; for 

Cuts, Bruises, itc, 190-101 

Bleedings; Interu.al aud External Kemedies— Styptic 
Balsam, for Intertiai Hemorrhages — Styptic Tincttire, 

External AppUeatioii, lb^-ll>4 

Bi'onchoceie, (Enlarged Neck), to Cure, iU4 

Burns; Salve for Burns, Frost- Bites, Cracked Nipples, 
«&c. ; very successful./— Dr. Downer's Salve for ilurns, 
—Poultice tor Jkirns and Froy.en Flesh, — Salve from 
the Garden and Kitchen, for Burns, eiz/ht preparations, 110-11) 

Cain})lior and o: her Medicated Wnters, 302 

Cancers, to cure, Methods of Dr. Landolti (Surgeon 
General to the Neapolitan Arniy,) — Dr. II. G. Jud- 
kiiis'— L. S. llodgkiiis'— ]{ev. C. C Cuylers'— Great 
English Reincily—Aiiierican, Bed Oak Bark, Salve 
from the Ashes™] ^rof II. S. Newton's — Prof. Calkins\ 
itc, altogether fourteen presciiptions, with Cautions 
against the use of theKnife,&howingv/hen the Treat- 

saent should commence, ».\:c., O'j 4(^ 

Costiveness, Comn\nu, or very Obstinate Cases, 1C1 -103 

Chronic Gout, to cure,— -Gout Tinctiue, 102-103 

Cathartic Syrup, iO^ 

Catarrh SnulT, 90 

Cauiphor-Ice, for Chap}>ed Hands and Lips, 109 

Chilblains, to cure, [)ublished by order oi the Govern 

ment of Wirtemburg, 1 13 

Cod Liver Oil, madx' Palatable and more Digestible, . . . 119 

Consumjnive Syrup, voiy successful, with directions 
about Travel — ik'marks on tlie Use of Fat Meats as 
Preventive of Consuniption, *fcc., — Chlorate of Potash 
in Ccnsumj>tlon, new^ remedy— Rational Treatmeo t 
forCoiiSumption, claimed to be the best in the world UP 125 

Composition l*owder. Tliompson's, , liO 

Croup, Simple but Etlectuai Kemedy — Dutch Remedy — 

Croup Oijitmenl 149-150 

Cough Lozenges, Uoo preparations — Pulmonic Wafers 
for 'joughs— Coughs from Recent Colds, remedy- 
Cough Mixture fur Recent Colds— Cough Ciuidy— * 

Cough Syrup — Cough Tincture — Cough Pill, nv-178 

Cbolism Tincture — Isthmus Cholera Tinctun>— Cholera- 



l^reveBtive— Cholera Cordial— German Cholera, Tinc- 
ture—Egyptian Cure for Cholera — India Prescription 

for Cholera— Nature's Cholera Meilicine, 178-180 

V'holic, and Cholera-jMorbus ; Treatment, 180-181 

('arminalivGs, for Children, 183 

Dyspepsia; Treatment from Personal Experience, with 
Cautions about Eating between Meals, especially 
against Constant Nibbling; also Father Piukney's 

Experience of Ninety Years, 87-99 

Dyspeptic's Biscuit and Coffee ; very valuable,. ....... 293 

Dyspeptic Tea, UQ 

Delirium Tremens ; to obtain Sleep — Stimulating Ano- 
dyne for Delirium, 107 

Disinfectant for Rooms, Meat or Fish — Coffee as a Dis- 
infectant for Sick-rooms 103 

Deafness, if recent, to Cure, if not, to Relieve,. 113 

Diuretic Pill— Drops, Decoction and Tincture.. ..... 143-144 

Dropsy Syrup and Pills ; very effectual, 144-145 

Diarrhea Cordial — Injection for Chronic Diarrliea — Di- 
arrhea Tiiicturo, Drops and Syrup ; also for Flux and 
Chronic Diarrhea in Adults aiid Children, when ac- 
companied with Canker,. . . , 17G-178 

r)(?n tritice, which removes Tartareous adhesions from 
the Teeth, arrests decay, and induces a healthy action 

of the Gums, 18S 

ni-ciUients, to Scatter Swellings— Common Sweilings 

to Reduce, 191-192 

Diptheria; Dr. Phinney's Treatment, of Boston, 183 

Enlarged Tonsils, to Cure, 104 

Kclectic Emetic,. 105 

ii)ye Water— often acknowledged to be worth moie than 
Twenty Dollars — India Prescription for Sore Eyes — 
Dr. Cook's Eye Water— Preparation for excessive 
Intlammation ot the E^es— Sailor's Eye Preparation 
-Father Pinkney's P'*paration for very bad Sore 
Eyes — Indian Eye Wucar— Poultices for the E}e — 
Films, to remove from the Eye — Eye Salve — Sore 
Eyes, to remove the Granulations — Altogether, 
ticenty'tivo Prescriptions, for difierent condition? of 

the Diseased Eye, 151-159 

Essences ; very Strong, 189 

Febrilugo Wine, (to drive away Fever), '^Q 

iTevers ; General improved Treatment, for Bilious, Ty- I 
phoid and Scarlet Fevers, Congestive Cliills, &c. ; ? 
also valuable in arresting Diarrhea, Summer Coia- 
plaint, Cholera-Infantum and ail forms of Fever ^n 
Children— Lemonade, nourishing for Fever Patients- 
Prof Hufeland's Drink for Fever Patients, or for ex- 
cessive Thiist.. .' ^ ^ 



PAaa 

Felon, it* recent, lo cure in Six Hours— Poultices for 

Felons— Felou Ointmeut and Salve, ^ i ^-S 

Fever Sore Plaster or Bhick Salve; has saved two differ- 
ent [lauds that two diilerenl |)hysicians, in each case, 
Said mu>5t be cut oti-.ivcd Salve for Fever-Sores— Indian 
Cure tor Fever Sorts— Rjindji-e's Salve for Fever- 
Sores—Fever-Sore l*oullices, Oir-linents, and Salve 
for Fever-Sores, Abscesses, liroken oreasts, <i:c., eleven 

preparalicms, 159 162 

Female Debiiily and Irregularities, Explanations and 
Treatment — Female Laxative Pills — Female l^axativc 
and Anodyne IHlis— Pills for Painful Menstruation — 
Injection lor .Female Complaints- 
Powder for excessive 
Flooding, also full explanat'ons of the natural Turn 
with young females, in such plain and delicate lan- 
guage, that everv Girl over 

ought 1.0 have the'book, 20S-214 

Uteruie ilomor/hages, Prof. Piatt's Treatment, twenty 

years without a Failure, 88 

Gravel and Kidney Complaints; Imperial Drop, 109 

GoaiJ"ey"s Cordial, 134 

rioliman's Anodyne or Golden Tincture, VS'6 

11\ drophobia, to prevent — Saxon llemedy — Grecian 

ilemedy — Quaker Kemedy; hfiy years successful... 151-153 
Intlammation of the Throat, (J^aryngitis) — Gargle for 
Sor<i Tiiroat — Sore Throat Liniment, with a byno})si3, 
(geii'^rai view), of Dr. Fitch s Treatment of Tiiroat 

Diseases, 93-90 

Inllammation of the Lungs—Inliammation of Ihe Pleu- 
ra, (pleurisy), with such full explanations of general 
In«l animations that no ditliculty will be experienced 

in Treating the Disease in any of its forms, 195-208 

tntianimation of the Liver — Eclectic Liver Pill — Liver 
Pill, Improved — Liver Drops, for obstinate cases — 
Ointment for Ulcerated Liver, Ague Cake, &c. ; very 

paiccesslul, 146- 1 47 

In-Growiui^ Toe Nail ; to cure, 174 

Indian Calliarlic Pills, 184 

itgliing Feet from Frost Bites ; to cure, Ill 

Irritating Piaster, extensively tised by Eclectics, 14c 

Jaundice; Dr. l^eabody's Cure, in its worst forms — 

Drink for common cases of Jaundice, 13u--lo) 

Liniments; Go«.>d Samaritan, Improved — Liniment for 
Old Sores — Dr. Kavmond's Liniment — German Kiieu 
malic Liquid or Liniment— Cook's Electio-Magnetic 
Linrment — Liniment for Spinal Aiiections -- Great 
Loudon Liniment — Gum Liniment — Patent Liniment 
— Lobelia and Cayenne Liniment — Liniment, said to 
b« St. John's &c.. 1 i 4 ua 



mDBx. xvli 

i^tudaiiiim, }B^ 

Night SAvcatfi ; to relieve, 80 

Omiinont for Old Sores — Mead's Salt-Rheum Ointment; 
has proved very successful — Judkin's — Sisson's 
Green Oiniment — exceedingly good — Dr. Kittred^e's 
'"eJebrated Ointment for '•pimpled Face," ''Prairie 
Iteii," etc.,— -Dr. Gibson's Oiniment, for ver^'bad Skin 
DViCases — Itch Ointment — Magnetic Ointment, said to 
be 'I rask's, with Stramonium Ointment and Tincture 

— Toad Ointment, ^fec, 125-13v 

Oil of Spike— Britsh Oil— Balm of Gilead Oil— Har- 
lem Oil or Welch M^'dacamentum; also Black Oils, 

vaJual>le tor Persons or Animals,.. t 174-175 

Opodeldoc ; liquid, 173 

[*aralysis ; if recent, to cure, if not to relieve — Para- 
lytic Liniment, 103 

Piles; very successful Remedy — Pile Cerate — Simple 
Cure lor Piles, internal and external I temeaies; eleven 

pre[)arations, 131-13b 

Paregoric, 183 

['ills, to Sugar Coat— Nervous Pihs, 148-149 

Pain- Killer^; said to be Perry Davis' Ufi 

Poisons ; Antidote, 195 

libeumatic Liniinent — Inllammatory Rheumatism; to 
cure — Dr. Kittredge's Remedy for Rheumatism and 
Stiti'ened Joints, from I^h^umalism— French Remedy 
for Chronic Rheumatism — Bitters for Chronic Rheu- 
Uiatism ; very successful ; Green Bay Intiian's Rem- 
edy for Rheumatism — New Remedy, &c. ; twelve prep- 
arations, 135-i3^8 

6ick-lleadache; to cure — Periodical Headache— Head- 
ache Drops — Tincture of Blood-root for certain Head- 
aches — Charcoal for certain Headaches, 104-107 

Sweating Drops — Sweating with burning Alcohol, 108 

Stimulant, in Low Fevers and after Uterine Hemorrha- 
ges, 141 

Sore Throat ; from recent cold. Remedy, 171 

Snake Bites; Etleciual Remedies, for Persons. and Ani- 
mals, 153-154 

Small Pox ; to prevent Pitting the Face, 191 

Salvia; Green Mouutam Salve; exceedingly valuable 
— Con kl ins Celebrated Salve — Af.oBalm of Gdead 

Salve and Peleg White's Old Salve 162-1G3 

Seidlitz Powder ; cathartic, 183 

T ceth ; Plxtracting ^vith little or no Pain — Tooth Pow- 
der; (/xcellcnt — 'Cecth ; to remove Blackness— Tooth 
Coiulial ; I^lagnetic — IIonu«pathic Tooth Cordijil — 
Neuralgia; internal Remedy — King of Oils, for iS'eu- 
.^gia and Rheumatism . , 184-18?> 



ivili INDBX 

PAGE. 

Tinctures ; i^ maKe,. 189 

Tetter, Ring-Worm and Barber's Itch ; to cure, 190 

Typhiis F'ever ; to prevent Infection, 107 

Vermifuge Lozenges— -Worm Tea— Worm Cake ; Eng- 
lish Kemedy — Tape Worm; Simple but elfectual 

iiemedics — Vermifage Oil ; Prof. Freeman's, 1G4-170 

Vegetable Physic, 184 

Wliooping-Cough Syrup — Daily's Whooping-Cough 
Syrup — Soreness or Hoarseness from Coughs ; Rem- 
edy, 173-1 V4 

Warts and Corns ; to cure in Ten Minutes — Dr. Uari- 
man's innocent and sure cure for Warts, Corns, and 

Chilblains; Jive prescriptio;is, 113-114 

Wens ; to cure, 192 

tanner's shoe and harness maker's department. 

Best Color for Root, Shoe and Harness Edge, and Ink 
whicli cannot Freeze — Cheap Color, for l^oot. Shoe 

and Harness Edge,. 215 

Black Varnish for the Edge, 217 

Deer Skins; Tanning and Buffing for Gloves; tJiree 

methuds, 218 

French Patent Leather — French Finish for Leather. . 221 

Grain-Side Blacking, for Ten Cents a Barrel, *i21 

Tanning Sheep Skins; applicable for Mittens, Door- 
jSlats, Robes, &c., — Tanning Fur and other Skins; 
Fifty Dollar Recipe — Tanning Deer and W^oodchuck 
Skins, for Whips, Strings, d;c., — Process of Tanning 
Calf, Kip and Harness, in from Six to Thirty Days- 
Canadian Process also, with 'Mr. Rose'h modification, 

of Madison, 217-221 

Sizing for Treeing-out Boots and Shoes, 215 

Varnish for Harness ; the Best in Use, 217 

Water-Poof Oil Paste Blacking, 216 

Water-Proof Paste without liubbcr — Neats-foot OU 
Paste, 218 

painter's department. 

Drying Oil ; equal to the Patent Dryers, 2*^» 

Door-Plates ; to make, 227-22S 

Etching upon Glass, for Signs, or Side Lights; easy 

Method, 229'23(. 

Frosting Glass, 225 

Fluoric Acid ; to make for Etching Purposes, 28^ 

Glass Grmding, for Signs, Shades, &^.., 23t 

Japan Dryers ; of the Best Quality, 22'i 

New Tin Roofs; Valuable Process ior Painting, 225 

Fir^-Proof Paint f«^r Ruofs, &c,— Water-Proof Oil- 
Rubber Paint, 22f 



Oil ; to prepare tor Uarnage, Wagon and Floor Painting, 229 

Oil Paini, io Ileducc with Water, 233 

Orieiiial or Crystal raiuting, with directions to make 
various Shades, or Compound Colors— Fancy Green, 

vfcc, 226-22: 

I'aiJit Sivins; to save and Reduce to Oil, 224 

Porcelain Finish; very Hard and White, for Parlors,.. . 231' 

Painter's Sanding Apparatus, 224 

Sketching Paper ; to prepare, 227 

PAINTEIIS' ECONOMY IN MAKING COLORS. 

Chrome Green — Chrome Yellow — Green ; durable and 
Cheap — Palis Green; two processes — Prusian Blue; 
two processes— Pea Brown— Pose Pink, 232-283 

blacksmiths' department. 

Butcher Knives; spring Temper and beautiful Edge,. 238 

Cast Iron; to case harden — Cast Iron; the hardest; to 

SoOeu for Drilling, 240 

Files and liasj^s, (old); to Re-cut by a chemical process, 233 

Iron ; to Prevent ^velding, 239 

Iron or W o o d ; to Bronze, Representing Bell-metal,. . 241 
Mill Picks; to Temper; ^Ar<?6 Preparatio'iis — Mill Picks 
and Saw Gunimeis; to Temper — 3lill Pick Temper- 
ing, as done by Church, of Ann Arbor, 23G 237 

Poor Iron ; to Improve, 236 

Uust on Iron or Steel ; to Prevent 234 

Sliver Plating, for Cariiage Work, 239 

Trap Sin'ings ; to Temper, 238 

Truss Spiings; Directions for Blacksmith's to make; 

superior to the Patent Trusses, 241 

Varjiishes; Transparent; for Tools, Plows, &c. — Var- 
nisli; Transparent Blue, for Steel Plows — Varnish, 
Seek-No-Further, for Iron or Steel— Varnish ; Black, 

having a polish, for Iron, 234-235 

V^'eiding Cast-Steel, without Borax, 235 

Welding a small piece of Iron upon a large one, with 

only a Light Heat, 240 

Wiif**ig upon Iron or Steel, Silver or Gold; not to cost 

*bt. Tenth of a Cent per letter, 236 

VVroughi-lron ; to Case-harden, 24d 

tinner's DErARTMENT. 

Black Tarnish ; for Coal Buckets, 243 

Box Metal ; to make for Machinery. , 244 

Britannia; to use Old, instead of Block Tm, in Solder,. 245 

Copper ; to l^n for Stew Dishes or other purposes, 244 

6ion ; to Tin for Soldering or other purposes 2^ 



PAGE. 

Iron, Iron Wire or Steel ; to Copper the Snrface, 244 

Japans lor Tin— lUack, Blue, Green, Oninge, Pink, 

Hod and Teilow, 243 

Laciiuer Tor Tin — Gold color, Transparent, Dine, Green, 

Purple and liose Color — also, Lacciuer for Brass, 243-243 

Liquid Glue, for Labelling ujH)n Tin, 245 

Li'iuid, to clean Brass, Door Knobs, &c., 245 

Oil Cans — Size of sheet, for from One to One Hundred 

Gallons, 24d 

Silver PowiitT, for Copper or worn Plated Goods, 245 

Solder for lirazing Iron, Led, Tin and Britannia, 244-245 

Titining Flux ; Improved, 245 

Tin ; to Pearl, for Spittoons, Water Coolers, &c, 245 

GUNSMIT-niNO DEPARTMENT. 

Broken Saws ; to Mend Permanently, 247 

Browniuij; (Inn Barrels; two processes — Browning for 

TwiHi Bani'ls, 240-247 

^'ase'llardeoiitiT, 247 

Tinning ; su[>(.'rior to the Old Process, 24? 

Varnish and Polish, for Stocks; Geruxan, 243 

JEWELERS* DEPARTMENT. 

Galvanizing Without a Battery, 248 

Galvaniziim Wilii a Shilling Battery ; also, Directions to 

.Alake llie^ liatlery, ". 241i 250 

Jc^Jclry ; Cleaning, and Polishing, 25C 

FARRIERS^ DEPARTMENT. 

Broken f.ind^s; Treatment, instead of inliumanly Shoot- 
ing Ujl' Horse, 2<J0-2Gi 

Bog-Spjivin and Wind-Gall Ointment; also go^d for 

Curbs. Splints, v^c, ^55 

Bone Spavin; French i"astc; Three Ilundrded Dollar 
Hecipe — Lone Spavin ; Norwegian cure — Spavin Liu- 

unent ; f'fnr ]>reparations,. . . ,7 254 

Bols ; Sure Uenuaiy, 251 

Choiic Cure; for Horses or Persons; has not failed in 

more than Forty Trials, 2% 

Condition I'owdcr; exceeilii^gly valuable; said to!)e St. 
John's — Cathurtic Condition Powder; designed for 

Worn-down Animals, 25D-'^')C 

DcGray or Sloaa's Horse Ointment, 259 

Disicmper, to Distinguish and Cure, 2r.5 

Eye Water, for Horses and CailJe, 2«i1 

Foundor, Rcmeiiy, t>i)8 

Grease- Heel and common Scraiches, to Cure, 2G2-2GiJ 

Heaves, Great Kelief for; tiix Mdhmis lx»r DLtiferent 
CoDdili<JU8. 204-205 



Soof. Ail ill Bheep, Sine Remtxly, 266 

Louj?i.-iit*ss »>r Sr« Hiring in iiiir^us or CatUe» Ueniedy in 

L'ise ( >ver Hi-vcui y Vejus 252-258 

LiimutMii Ibr Siitl ^5eck^, from Poll-evils — English bla 
ble Liniuu'ul, V'eiy Strong — Liniinenl for One Siiii- 
ling a <^nari, Vaiual^lt' in F^lrains, Old Swellings, ^\:c. ; 

aii'l Nerve and Bone Liniineni, 20" 

Poll-Hvil a;iil FisMila, i*ositive Cure — Poll-Evil and Fis- 
tuhi, Norvvegi;in Cure ; /s'^jyA^ Meih(»ds, all <»[ vvijich 
have Cured Majiv Cases — i^oll- Evils, to Scalier, v\:c. ; 

l^>Ulsh, to Make, Used in i^Jll-Evils 250-258 

Physic, Hall and Litjuid ; lor Horses and CaUle. 200 

finiii-bone and Sj);«A.'in Cure, often acknowledged worth 
lire V^due of ihe Horse— O. H. Bangs' Method lor PtC- 
cenl Cases- Uavvson's iiirigd)oiie and Spavin Cure, 
has Cured Uing-bunes as Thick as the Aim — Indian 

MeiJiod, also, very Simple, 251-254 

Splint anil Spavin Liniment, 255 

Sweeny Liniment 250 

Scours and Pin- Worms, to Cure, in Horses or Cattle,. . 250 

Saddle and liarness Galls, Bruises, xVbrasions, »fcc., 

1 temei ly, 203 

Sores from Ciiahng of tlie Bits, to Cure 203-204 

Shoeing Horses for Winter Travel, 205 

5u.pp(jrting xVpparatus in Lameness of iVninials, Ex- 
plained, 201 

Tamini^ Wild and Vicious Horses — Also, Showing Who 

Caul)o Jt 2G7-201> 

Wound EalsaiJii, for Horses or Persons, 202 

cabinet-makers' DEPAIlTMEiNT. 

Finishing Furniture with Only One Coat of Varnish, 
Not Using Glue, Paste, or Shellac; very Valuable,.. 270 

Jet i\>lis[u for Wood or Leather; Black, lied and Blue, 270 

Polish; for New Furniture — Polish; for reviving Old 
Furniture; equal to the '* Brother Jonathan," and 
Polisii fc/ removing Stains, Spots and Aiiidevv from 
Furniture, 209-270 

Stains; Mahogany on Walnut as Natural as Nattire — 
Kose Wood Stain; very bright Siiade, used cold — 
Uose- Wood Stain ; light Shade, used hot — liose-|unii, 
Stain and Varnisii; also used to inutale Kose- Wood — 
Black Walnut Stain—Cherry Slain 271-273 

/arnish ; Trans{>areut; for Wood — Patent Varnish ; for 
Wood or Canvass — Asphaltum Varnish ; black, 273-274 

BARBEas' AND TOILET DEPARTMENT. 

Ualm of a Thousand Flowers, 280 

tfolgutt imporial — Colore for Family Uae; Cheaper,,. 27S~27i 



PAUE 

Funded and Worn Gani\cnt6; to Renew th« Color,. .... 27$ 

i^air f )ye ; Ueliuble, 274 

Hair JvesioiMlive; equal to Wood's, for a Tridinir cost: 
fcj^ir i)rc'paraiions; cheap and lleliable — llairlnvigo- 
ralors, ttoo preparations; will slop llaii ^roin FrtUinif 27a 27 Q 

Hair Uils; New York Barber's SUir Uair Oil— Macassar 
or liose — Fragrant iiome-made .— Pcnade or Ox- 
Marrow, '^7% 

Shauipoouing Mixture, for Five Cents per Quart 277 

F'juovating Mixture; for Grease Spots, Sijami»ooning 
tiud ivilliug lied Bugs — Renovating Clotbes; Gentle- 
men^s Wear 277-278 

ftizor Strop Paste ; very Nice, 280 

bakers' and cooking department. 

Sreads; Yankee Brown Bread — Graham Bread — liOn- 
don Baker's sup^erior Loaf Bread— New French Mciii- 
od of making Bread — Old Baciielor's Breavl, Biscuit 
and Pie-Crust — Baking Powders, for Biscuit, without 
Shoriening, 200-4^S 

f 'Jikes ; Federal — Rough and Ready — Sponge Cake, with 
Sour milk — Sponge Cake, with Sweet Milk — Berwicli 
Sponge Cake, without Milk — Suri)rise CaRe — Sugar 
Cake — Ginger Cake — Tea or Cup Cake — CaKe with- 
out Eggs or .Milk — Pork Cake, wiiliout Buiiei, Mdtt 
or Eggs — Cider Cake — Ginger Snaps—Jeii Cake and, 
Roll Jell Cake- -Cake Table, showing how to make 
Fifteen ditferent kinds, as Pound, Genuine Whig, 
Bhrewsburry, Training, Nut Cake, Short, Cymbals, 
Burk, and Jumbles, — Ginger Bread, — WcHiders,— 
Cookies — York — Biscuit — Common and Loaf Cakes-- 
Molasses Cake — Marble Cake — Silver Cake, and Gold 
Cake, tinising with Bride and Fruit Cakes — Frosting 
for Cakes, &c. — Excellent Crackers — Sugar Crack- 
ers—Naples Biscuit — Buckwheat Shoit-cake, with- 
out Shortening, most excellent ; and Yeast Cake,... 281- 2?5S 

Pies; Lemon Pie, extra nice — Pie-Crust Glaze, which 
prevents the juices from soaking into the crust— Ap- 
l)le-custard Pie, the nicest ever eaten — Paste for Tarts, 293-205 

Puddings; Biscuit Puddinc^ without Re-baking— Old 
English Christmas Plum Pudding — Indian i^udding; 
to Bake — Indian Pudding, to i3oii— Quick Indian 
Pudding — Flour Pudding, to boil— Polatoe Pud- 
ding — Green Corn Pudding — Steamed Puddm^-- 
Spreading and Dip Sauces ibr Puddings, , 295-297 

DOMESTIC DISHES. 

A.pples; to Bake Steamboat Style, bettor than pre- 
oerTes — Apple Fritters— Apples to Fry; exUa oice,, 298-29$ 



mDEZ. niS 

PAQS 

Ippte Merange, an Excellent Substitute for Pie, and 

Pihlding 299 

BMck- \V<MMl>i Presrves 2*^0 

Bi *jui ; to Fry, heiiur tban Toast, \ 21)9 

Prep.ch Honey, 300 

Fruit Jams. jV-llios, and Preserves, 300 

Fruit Kxtracts 301 

Green Corn Omelet 298 

M')ek Ovslers, 300 

M itlins..". 30C 

Toast : German Style 299 

[lose, and Cinnamon Waters, 303 

MISCELLANEOLTS DEF»ARTMENT. 

A.(lvice to Yonng M<'n. and Others out of Employment, 33(>-341 

Bed-K('Om Carpets, for One Shilling per Yard, 333 

Cn:Tants ; to dry with Sugar, 3lo 

Ciirrani Catchup 314 

Co tree ; more Healthy and better Flavored, for one- 
fourth the Expense of Common, 834 

Cemetits; Cements for China, cic., which Stands Fire 
and Water — C'ement, Cheap and Valuable — German 
and Uussian Cement — Cement. Water l^roof, lor Cloth 
and Bi'iting — Cement or Furniiure Glue, for House 
Use — White Cement and Cement to prevent Leaks 
about Chinmeys, l{o(<fs, &c. — Scrap Book Paste or 

Cement, al vvava ready for Use, «^ . . - 317-319 

Canning Fruits ; Peaches, Pears, Berries, Plums, Cher- 
ries, Strawbe/ries and Tomatoes — Cement for Can- 
ning Frujta,. 313-314 

Eggs ; to Increase the Laying — Eggs; to Fry extra nice, 44 

Fence Posts ; to Pievent'Kotting,. 308 

Fire Kicdle/3, 329 

Fish; Art ot Catching, 321 

Gravp] Hfnises; to make, proportions of Lime, Sand 

and Gra v^el, 324 

Glui'S; Lujuid Glue; Imitatioi s, equal to Spalding's 

Liquid (ilue, an<i Water Proof Glue, 328 

Gram»n;ir in Kliyme, for the Little Folks, 341 

r?Insical Curiosity ; Scotch Genius in Teaching, 342 

Mejitc}; to Preserve — Beef; to Pickle tor Long Iveeping— 
Michigan Farmer's metliod — Beef; to Pickle for Win 
ter or Present Use, and tor Drying, vt'ry nice — Mutton 
Hams; to Pickle for Drying — Curing, Smokimj: and 
Keeping Hams— T. E. Hamilton's, Maryland Premium 
method — Pork; to have Fresh from Winter Killing, for 
Summer Frying — Salt Pork for Prying; Nearlv Equal 
to Fresh — thresh MoiU; to Keep a Week or I'vvo, in 
Summer — Smoked Meat ; U) Pre&erve for Years or for 
Bea Voyage?^ — Rural New Yorker'a Method, ajid the 
Hc^' iiiigbkod Farmer " Seviiti^ hift fiaiXMi.'' 309-819 



1X17 UM>E3 

PAO> 

Magic Paper ; usod to transfer Ugiires in Embroidery 

or Impressions of Leaves for Herbariums, ^i% 

Percussion .Matches ; best quality 320^331 

Preserves; T^Muato juui Walerrnelon Preserves 315 

Plurns and olber Fruits; to prevent iuseeis fiom Sting- 
ing ;m 

l^i<klinL' ; Apples, Poaeb(^s, Ph.ms, and Cucumbers; 

V<,Ty Niee In.it-e;!— Peju hes; to Vvtl 3;>4-3;5 

Rat Desirnycis; Kit ExterminatDr— I)e:itb Fnr the OKI 
Slv [{a! — Ivnts; to Drivu Away Alive — Kal Poison 

IYmu Bir Hnnipbrey Daw 320-::;21 

Straw Donnets; to Color a Ijcauliful Slate— Straw and 

Cbipliafs: to Varnish liiaek, 32'^ 

Stuei'o Plastering; for Brick and Gravel Houses, 322-324 

Sti-am iJoiUrs; t7> l^revent P^.xpiosion, with ibe It'eason 
why they Exphuie — Steam Boilers; to prevent Lia^e 

Deposits, two MethOils S:s2-335? 

SattdStcne; to Prevent Scaling From Frost-S, kV/^b 

SealiTig Wax ; to Make, ited, Black, and Blue, 336 

Starch'I'olisi) o29 

Si)Mps ; Soft So.'ip, for Half the Expense and One-Fourth 
the Troiibleof the OUl Way — (ierman ErasiveSoap — 
Hard Soai> — Trans]>arent Soa}>— One Hundied Pounds 
of (loo«l Soa[>for (.>ne Dollar and ^fhirtv Cents— Chend- 
cal Soft Soa;i — Soap W'iiiiout Heat — Windsor or Toi- 
let Soaj> — Variegated Toilet Soap, &c. 3^4-306 

Fallow Candles for Sununer Use — Taliow; *o Cleanse 

and Bleach 307 

Ton)ato Catchup; the Best 1 Ever Used, ol 1 

Totnaio; Cultivation for Early and Late — Tomatoes as 

Fooil, and Tomatoes as F(k»«1 for Cattle, 6')-Tt> 

Tin- Ware; to Mend by the Lleat of a Candle,. 315 

Tije; to keep on the Wheel Until Worn Out, iJiC 

Washing-Fluid; Saving Half the Washboard Labor — 
Liipi'.d liluing; used in Washing, ISever Specks the 

Clothes, \ 802-:iO3 

Wafer Filler ; H< »me-Made, '6^>f- 

Weeds ; to Destroy in Walks,. 31') 

WHITEWASH AND CHEAP PAINTS. 

Brilliant Stucco Whitewash; AVili L*.H on Brick or 
Si(»ne, Twe:uly to Thirty Years — Whitewji^h, Very 
Nice Or lioonis — Paint; to Make Without Lead or 
v)il — W)ite Paint; a New- W^ay of MMUufacturing — 
Black and Green Paint; Durable and Cheats for Out- 
Door vVork— Milk Paint; for Barns, Any Color, 325-!j3e 

COLORING DBPAKTMENT. 

Color? on Woolen Goods, Chrome Black; Superior lo 
any in Use—Black oa Wool. k>r Mixtures — Steel M\x^ 



PAG&. 
Dark — Bnuff Brown—Madder Ued— Oreen or* Wool 
cr Silk, with Oak Bark — Green, wich Fustic—Blue; 
Quick Pruci'ss— Slot-king Vurn or Wo6l ; to Color 
Between a Blue and Burple — Scarlet with Cochineal, 
f(^r Yirn or Cloth — IMnk—Ornnge — Lac lied — Pur- 
ple — Silv'ir Drab; Liirhi Shades — Slate; on Woolen or 
Cottf»n--Exiract of Indigo or Chemic, used in Color- 
ing; to Make — Wool; to Cleanse — Dark Color»; to 
Extract and Insert Liirht, 843-346 

i;iirahle Co)(.rs on Cotton; Black — Sky Blue — Lime 
Water and Strong Lime Water; to Makf for Colonng 
Purp(»se^i — I*>Uio on Cotton or Linen, with Logwuod — 
G nen — Yellow — Orange — lied — M uriate c.>f Tin, 
Liquor; to Make, 847-84S 

DoloPb for Silk; Green; Very Handsome, with Oak 
Bark — Green or Yellow, on Silk or Woolen; in F'ive 
to Pitleen Minntxts Only— Mulberry— Black — Sp«as; 
to Kt'inoveand Prevent Spotting when Coloring P>lack 
on Silk or Woolen — Light Chemic Blue — Pur|»le — 
Yellow — Orange — Crimson — Cinnamon or Brown — 
or Cotton and Silk, by a New Process ; very Beautiful, 849-351 

INTEX38T DEPARTMENT. 

Interest Tables, Showing the Interest at a Glance: At j 

Six, Seven, Flight, Nine, and Ten Per Cent, on all | 

S\ims from One D<)llar to One Thousand Dt>i]ar9, I 

From One Day to One Year, and for Any Nundier of 
Years; Also, Legal Interest of all the Ditferent States, 
ami the Legal Consequences of Taking or Agreeing 
upon Usurous liates in the Diilerent States, 85^8^ 

GL08SARIAL, EXPLANATORY, DEPARTMENT. 

fhis Depaiiment embraces Tables of Rules for Admin- 
istehnt! Medicines, Hj;ving Reference to Age and Sex 
— Kxplanations of Medical Abbreviation*, A f^otheca- 
ries Weights and Measures — also, an Explanation of 
About Seven Hundred Technical Terms found in Med- 
ical Works, Many i>f which are Couf^tantiy Occurring 
m the Common VYritings and Literature of tlie Day, 
wiiicii are not explained in English Dictionaries,. . . . 801^884 

INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS. 

A pparatus for Supporting Lame Animals, '. . . . 201 

Profit i^piere, , 2 

Form oi Ltliering frr Door Plates, 22£ 

Maiidne lor Spliiiing Matclies,, . . ScU 

!SinUT'<T Sanding Apparnnis,. 224 

ft^'veh and Lo/.tjnge8 ; Apparatus for Making, lt>4 

Vuicgar GeneriiloV, 86 



REFE^^ENOES. 



Extracts from Certificates and Diplomas in the Dootcf'i 
Possession, Connected with his Study of Medicine. 

** I hereby certify that A. VV. CnAeR has prosecuted the Study 
of Medicine ujuler my instruction duriixg the term of two years 
ftpd sustains a good morn,! character. 

(Signed,) O. B. REED, Physician. 

Belle River, Mich." 

" Untvkkstty of MicmoA.N, ) 
College of Medicine and Surgery. ) 
This Certifies that A. W. CnASE has attended a full Coarse of 
Lectures in this institution. 

(Signed,) SILAS H. DOUGLASS, Dean. 

University of Alicliigan, Ann Arbor." 

EcLKCTic Mrdical Instttutk, Cin., O. 
Know All Men by these Presents, That A. W. Chask has 
Bustnined an honorable examination before the Faculty of this 
Institute, on all the departments of Medical Science, &c. * * 
Wherefbre we, the Trustees and Faculty, * * * by the 
authi>rity vested in us by the Legislature of the State of Ohio, do 
confer on him the Degree of Doctor op Mkdicink. 

WM. B. PIEIJCE, President. 
W. T. UUliLBERT, Vice I^res't 
Jas. Q. Henbhall, Secretary. 

Signed also by seven Professors, embracing the 
[BSiJLj names of Scudder, Bickley, Freeman, Newlon, B^- 
dridge, Jones, and Saunders. 



ANN ARBOR REFERENCES. 

, The following statements are given by my migliboTn^ to whom 
I had sent the eighth edition of my ** llecipes," asking their 
opinions of itswi/t/^ for the people, most of whom had previous- 
ly purchased earlier editions of the work, and several of them 
used many of the Recipes ; and surely their position in society 
must place their statements above all suspicion of cmnplidty with 
the author in palming off a worthless book ; but are designed to 
heneJU th4 people by increasing the spread of genuine practirxU 
^formation : 

Ron. Alphrus Pklch, one of our first lawyers, formerly 
% Senator in Congress, and alsoex-Goverunr of Michigan, says : — 
Please accept my thanks for the copy ol yuur ** Hecipt?8,** which 
you were so godd as to send me. The book se^-ms to me to 
;coutaln muoh ialuable ^acttaU informatum^ and 1 have no douih) 
jwill be extensively osefuL 



A. WmcHELL, Professor of Geology, Zoology and Botany, In 
tiie University of Michigan, and also fetate Geologist, says : — 1 
have examined a large number of Recipes in Dr. Chase's pub- 
lished collection, an cl from my knowledge, either experimental 
or theoretical, of many of them, and my confidence in I)r 
Chase's carefulness, judgment, and conscientiousness in the 
Belection of such only as are proved useful, after full trial, I feel 
no hesitatkm in saying that they may all be received with the 
utmost confidence in ^eir practical value, except in those ciises, 
where the Doctor has himself qualified his recommendations. 

James C. Watson, formerly Professor of Astronomy, and now 
Professor of Phywcs, in the University of Michigan, author of a 
•* Treatise on Comets," also of** Other Worlds, or the Wonders of 
the Telescope, " says : — 1 have examined your book of practical 
Recipes, and do not hesitate to say that so far as my observation 
and experience enable me to judge, it is a work which should 
find its way into every family in the land. The information 
Vhich it contains could only have been collected by the most 
careful and long continued research, and is such as is required 
in every day lifa I can heartily recommend your work to the 
patronage of the public. 

Rev. L. D. Chaptn, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church, says: 
Allow me to express to you ray gratification in the perusHfof 
your book. I do not regard myself as qualified to speak in re- 
ard to the whole book, for you enter into Departments in which 
have no special knowledge, but where 1 undejstand the 
subject 1 find many things of much practical value for every 
practical man and house-keeper; and judging of those parts 
which I do not, by those which I do understand, I think that 
jrou have furnished a book that most families can afford to have 
at any reasonable price. 

Rev. Geo. Smith, Presiding Elder of the M. E. Church, Ann 
Arbor, says : — I take pleasure in saying that so far as I have 
examined, I have reason to believe that your Recipes are genu- 
ine, and not intended as a catoh-pennyy but think any person 
'jurchasing it will get the worth of their money. 

Rev. Geo. Tavlor, Pastorof Ann Arbor and Dixboro M. E. 
Church, writes as follows:— As per your request, I have carefid- 
^y examined your book of Recipes, recently issued, and take 
pleasure in adding my testimony to the many you have already 
received, that I regard it as the best compilation of Recipes 
have ever seen. Several of these Recipes we have used in oui 
family for years, and count each of them worth the cost of your 
book. 

Elder Samuel CoRNELiua, Pastor of the Baptist Church, 
wiites:—! have looked over your book of *' lufo/mation for 
Everybody," and as you ask my judgment of it, I say that it 
gives evidence of much industry and care on the part of the 
ormpiler, &ud conieias iufonnation whirii must be v&luAble lo 



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all classes of business men. in town and country, and especially > * 
all families who want to cook well, and have pleasant healtl^ 
drinks, syrups and jellies; who wish to keep health when they enjo;; 
it, or seek for it in an economica] way. 1 thank you for the coj/j 
you sent to me, and hope you may make a great many famiiiei 
healthy and happy. 

Rev. F. a. i3LADES, of the M. E. Church, and Pastor in charge^ 
for two years, of Ann Arbor Station, says : Dr. Chase — Dear Sir — 
Your work of Recipes, I have examined — and used some of them 
for a year past — I do not hesitate to pronounce it a valuable work — 
containing information for the ]\iillion. I hope you will succeed in 
circulating it very generally — it is worthy a place in every house. 

This gentleman speaks in the highest terms of the ''Dyspeptic's 
Biscuit and Cofiee," as of other recipes used. 

"CrERBACH & Co., Druggists, of Ann Arbor, say: — "We have been 
filling prescri[)tions from *' Dr. Chase's Recipes," for three or lour 
years, and freely say that we do not knou of any dJssaiisf action 
arising from want of correctness ; but on the other hand, we know 
that they give general satisfaction. 

Rev. S p. Hildretii, of Dresden, C, a former neighbor, inclos- 
ing a recent letter, says: I have carefully examined your book, and 
regard it as containing a large amount of Information which will be 
valuable in every household. 

Rev. William C. Way, of the M. E. Church, Plymouth, Mich., 
says: — I have cured myself of Laryngitis, (inflammation of the 
throat,) brought on by long continued and constant public speaking, 
by the use of Dr. Chase's black oil, and also know a fever sore to 
have been cured upon a lady, by the use of the same article. 



OPINIONS OF THE ANN ARBOR PRESS. 

A Nfw book. — Dr. Chase, of this city, has laid on our tabla 
anew edition of his work entitled "Dr. Chase's Recipes, or Infer* 
mation for Everybody," for making all sorts of things, money not 
excepted. We would not, hov^ever, convey the idea that the Doctor 
tells you how to make spurious coin, or counterfeit bills, but by 
practicing upon the maxims laid down in this work, money-making 
is the certain result. Buy a book, and 

adopt the recipes in your households, on your farms, and in your 
business, and success is sure to follow. The work is neatly printed, 
elegantly bound, and undoubtedly embodies more useful inlbnaa- 
tion than any work of the kind now before the })ublic. 

Students, or others, wishing to engage in selling a soledble work, 
will do well to send for circulars describing the book, with terms to 
agents, <S:c., for it is indeed a work which *' Every body" ought to 
have. — Michigan State A^eics, Ann Arbor, 



\KJnraiiNcrui. xz,ij 

of^ "RT/in^^^^^^"^'"' city, hM placed on our table a copy 
ti.h . . ^'^^P^' or Information for Everybody." Bepinning 
withasroal) pamphlet, the Doctor has swelled his wcUtol 

are a^prcuHted. The volume fiimiRhcs many r«>r-;,,e9 and muoh 
mformalioB of real ,,racUcal val„e.-.W«:yie>./ary.U Ann TXr 

rJ^ ^'l'-^'':^'^^ I{KCI1'ES.-The ninth ed,t,..n of Dr. Ohuse's 
Ro.i,,es h»sl.e,M, re.ui,tly pnhlished, revised, illnsln,t..i an,l en 

its /em af r'Vr"'- '"•"-'*'»"''^- '^"i^t^. fanners, and for fa.nl 
nts trem rally. T he recip«s are accompanied with e.xnIanHlions 

i.ah^nr'"f '^'"«^^g^r'>' "'''reasethe value of the w"rt 
18 a handsomely bound volume. - - •.-. ..-Ann Arbor J<,urn^ 

h^^b" ^'P''^^^'^ «'■ ^Pn Arbor, has favored ns with a copy of his 
book of recipes wnch has. in an unprecedented short ti.ne 
reached Ihe ninth edit.on. showing its r-opularity wherever it hw 
been m.rodnced. It contains "information fV.r evervlH.dv " for 
making all sorts of things. It is a valuable work for every on.!^ 
boo'lf "I'lev' "^'^^ ^'•-•''^g ^orth much more than the est of the 
book Hev. Mr. H rawr, the gentlemanly aaent tor the work is 
DOW m thecty. and will ,;h11 upon our citizens trjvine the n an 
oppprt.uutv to seeure a copy. The work is neallv orin.ed efe 
gant y bound, and undoubtedly em».(.,iies more useful mforma- 
tionihan any work of the kind now before the public. 

a better investment cannot be made bv 
any one— Graiid Hipidj, K.tgk. ' 

On UriASE of Ann ArlH>r. has favored us with a copy of 
Reci,.e9 whu-h he has publishe.l, ♦ * » . „ho claim* that 
thev have l«-en made up from his own and nth. J' ev.^^y ! ny «! 

Ihk work J T" Tf T"]"*'"? * '^'•"" ""*"■' ««■•«" ^"^'I'«» io 
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w h nr A W o" ^'l- >"'«^'*-«*y:-VVe have been acptatnte^ 
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business, and we are well sntistied that he would not do a S 

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DR. CHASE'S RECIPES 



MERCHANTS' AND GROCERS' DEPARTMENT. 

VlNEG-AR. — Merchants and Grocers who retail vinegar 
should always have it made under their own eye, if possible, 
ii'om the fact that so many unprincipled men enter into its 
zianufacture, as it affordi? such a large profit. Aed I would 
further remai-k, that there is hardly any article of domestio 
use, upon which the mass of the people have as little correct 
information as upon the subject of making vinegar. I shall 
be brief in my remarks upon the different points of th<» 
subject, yet I shall give all the knowledge necessary, tha 
families, or those wishing to manufacture, may be able tc 
have the best article, and at moderate figures. Remcmbei 
this fact — that vinegar must have air as well as warmth, 
and especially is this necessary if you desire to make it m 
a short space of time. And if at any time it seems to be 
" Dying, " as is usually called, add molasses, sugar, alcohol, 
or cider — whichever article you are making from, or prefer 
—for vinegar is an industrious fellow ; he will either work 
or die, and when he begins to die you may know he haa 
worked up all the material in his shop, and wants more. 
Remember this in all vinegars, and they will never die, if 
they have air. First, then, upon a small scale, for family 
xse. 

To Make m Thres Weeks.— Molasses 1 qt. ; yeast 1 pi. ; 
warm rain water 8 gais. Put ah into a jug or keg, and tie a 
piece of gauze over the bung to keep out flies and let in air. In 
hot weather set it in the sun ; in cold weather set it by the store 
or in the chimney comer, and in thi^ee weeks you will have good 
rinegar. 

When this is getting low, pour out eome for use, and fill 

2— DR. chase's recipes. 



84 * DR. chase's recipes. 

up the jug in the same proportion as at first, and you will 
never have trouble for want of good vinegar. 

2. A correspondent of the Dollar Newspaper says: "The 
cheapest moile of making good vinegar is, to mix 5 qts. of warm 
rain water with 2 qls. of Orleans molasses, and 4 qts of yeast. 
In a few weeks you wUl have the best vinegar you ever tasted." 
He might well say, *' The best vinegar you ever tasted," for jt 
would liave double the necessary strength, and three or four 
times the strength of much that is sold ; yet this &trength would 
cost less to maiie, than to buy by the quart. 

3. In Barrels Without Trouble. — Merchants and 
Grocers, who retail vinegar, can always keep a good supply 
on hand by having about two or three barrels out of which 
to sell, by filling the first one they sell out, befofip quite 
empty, with 

Molasses 1 gal. ; soft water 11 gals. 

Keeping this proportion to fill the barrel ; the vinegar 
and mother which is left in the barrel makes it work much 
quicker than if put into empty barrels ; so pass around on 
he next barrel as it is nearly out, having three barrels, and 
anless you sell more than a barrel a week, you need nevei 
oe out of vinegar. Some recommend to use alum, cream 
of tartar, <^c., in vinegar, but I say, never. It is always ad- 
visable to have a hole in the top of the barrel, if standing 
on end; if on the side, the bung out and a gauze over it, 
to keep out flies and let air in. 

4. From Sugar, Drippings from Sugar Hogsheads, 
Ac. — Dealers who retail molasses, often have from five to 
fii'ty pounds of sugar left in the barrel after selling out the 
molasses. Each pound of this, or other sugar, dissolved in 
two gallons of soft water, makes that amount of good vine- 
gar by either of the above plans. Rinsings of molasses 
barrels or drippings of sugar hogsheads brought to this de- 
gree of sweetness, is as good for vinegar as any other mate* 
rial. Small beer, lager beer, ale, &c., which have become 
sour, make good vineijar bv reducing with water ; small 
beer will need but little water; lager beer will need as 
much water as beer, or a little more ; and ale, twice as mucix 
water as ale ; they will all need yeast, a quart or two t» 
each barrel, unless put into barrels Thich have some via- 



MERCHANTS' AND GROCERS DEPARTMENT, 8^ 

egar in them, and it will do no harm, but quicken the pro- 
cess in all cases if there is vinegar in the barrel. 

5. From Acetic Acid and Molasses.-— Acetic acid 4 lbs • 
molasses 1 gal. ; put them into a 40 gallon cask, and fill it up 
with ram water; shake it up and let stand from one to three 
weeks, and the result is good vinegar. 

If this does not make it as sharp as you like, add a little 
more molasses. But some will object to this because an 
acid is used: let me say to such, that acetic acid is concen^ 
traced vmugar. Take 1 lb. or 1 pt. or any other quantity 
of this acid, and add seven times as much soft water, and 
you have just as ^ood vinegar as can be made from cider, 
smd that instantaneously. 

6. From Apple Cider.— As there are those who will 
not have any biit cider vinegar, and have plenty of cider 
out of wVich to make it, I will give you the best plan of 
proceeding for manufacturers : 

Have a rocm where it will not freeze ; place on end as many 
barrels or large casks, witho ut heads, to hold as much as you 
wish to m«ke ; m\ these one-third full of soft water, and the 
other two chirds with apple cider ; yeast 2 q is. to each cask. 

In a fer< weeks you will have good vinegar; without the 
yeast it Would be all the season in becoming good. Then 
fill up into barrels for sale, leaving a little, say one-eighth, 
m the oped barrels, and fill them up with water and "cider 
as before, and it will become good much quicker than be- 
fore. If the water is objected to, use the cider without it, 
but pure cider makes vinegar too strong for any one to use, 
and requires much longer time in making. These barrels 
may havo boards over them to keep out flies and dirt. If 
the retailer can give it his attention, by having a barrel of 
good cidor vinegar to sell out of, he can always keep it up, 
if, when ne draws out two or three gallons of the vinegar, 
lie will go to his cider, kept for the purpose, and repfaco 
the vinegar with the cider ; or if making with molasses and' 
water or any other article, fill up with tlie same ; but take 
notice, if you forget or neglect, and draw your vinegar 
nearly all out before you fill in, it does not keep to the point 
of sharpness desired, unless you have two or three barrela 
as mentioned in recipe No. 2 



96 



DR. CHASE'S RECIPES. 



Persons who hav« old sour cider on hand can in this way, 
or as mentioned in No. 6, have good vinegar from it imme- 
diately, as it comes around into vinegar much quicker thaa 
new cider. 

7. In Three Days without Drugs. — The philosophy 
of making vinegar quickly, is this : The means that will 
expose the largest surface of the vinegar fluid, of a certain 
temperature, to the air, will convert it into vinegar in the 
shortest time ; and as there is no way by which so great a sur- 
face can be exposed as by the shavings process, and at the 
same time control the temperature, that plan has been adopt- 
ed, as explained in the wood cut accompanying, and in tha 
descriptive note : 



Main cover, or loo«e Iwardfl, 

Vinegar Fluid Space, 

Fal.se top, with tubes ; and cords hanging 
throtigh it, 

Center T>ortion of the tub, which should 
be fllled with the shavings to within an 
*n inch or two of the faiee top ......... 

Boles to tot ia air.., 

The square projectiong on the side of the 
Generator represent hoops. 



Vinegar Generator. 
jL)ESCKiPTrvB Note. — Tnose wishing to manufacture, to sell 
ftt wholesale , will prepare a tub, or square box, and arrange it 
as shown in the accompanying cut, knowing that the taller and 
larger the tub, the quicKer wifl the vinegar become good. The 
air holes are bored through every other, or every third stave^ 
around the whole tub. These holes are to be about one foot oi 
eighteen inches from the bottom ; they must also be bored slant- 
ing down as you bore inward, othewise the vinegar would run 
out and waste as it drips down the side of the tub. These tuba 
ought to be from ten to twenty feet high, according to the quan- 
lity you desire to run off daily. Now take beech manie et 




MEROHAI^TS' AND GROCERS' DEPARTMENT. 37 

basswood boards — ^and they are valuable in the order named- 
cut them off about eighteen inches in length, and plane thick, 
heavy shavings from the edges ; and if they do not roll up and 
stay in nice rolls, you must roll and tie them up with small cord ; 
or clean corn cobs will do, but they will only last one season, 
whilst the shavings will last several years. If cobs are used, 
they must be put in layers, each layer crossing the other, to pro- 
vent their packing too close. Then wet or soak them thorough- 
ly in water, and fill up tlie tub or tubs with them, unti' you are 
within two or three feet of the top, at which place you will nail 
a stout hoop around, upon the inside of the tub, which shall 
» support the false top^ which has been made and fitted for that 
purpose, through which false top you will have bored good sized 
gimlet holes about every two inches all over its whole surface, 
through each of which holes a small cord, about four or five 
inches in length, is to be draw^n, having a knot tied upon its 
upper end to keep it in its place, and to prevent the vinegar- 
fluid from working out too fast. The size of these holes, and 
the size of the cord, must be such as to allow the amount ol 
vinegar being made to run through every twelve hours, or it 
time can be given to put it up so often, it may run through every 
six hours. You will cork all around between the false top and 
Iho. tub with cotton, which causes the vinegar-fluid, hereafter to 
be described, to pass through the gimlet holes and drip from the 
enisof the small cords, evenly, all over the shavings, other- 
wise, if" the false top was not exactly level, the vinegar-fluid 
would all run off at the lowest point, down the side of Uie tub, 
ard be a very long time in becoming good, whilst if it drips 
slowly and all over and down through the shavings, it soon 
comes around into good vinegar The holes bored for that pur- 
pose, in warm weather, oxidizes or acetifies the vinegar-fluid, by 
af brdmg the two essential points of quicKiy making good vinegar, 
that in, air and heaty without the expense of a fire to warm the 
flidd, or room in which the vinegar is made. Now bore five 
oi»e-inch holes through the false top, one of them through the 
center, and the others two-thirds of the distance each way, 
lowwds the outside of the tub, into which holes drive as many 
pins, having a three-quarter inch hole bored through them 
lengthwise, which makes them tubes ; cut the tubes oft' an inch 
bo'ow the top of the tub, so as to be out of the way of the main 
cc ver or loose boards which will be thrown over the top of«the 
tub for the purpose ot keeping out flies and dirt, and also to 
k( ep the heated aii in, which comes up through the tubes; this 
ai** becomes heated by the chemical action of the air upon the 
viuegar fluid as it drips along down through the shavings in the 
ttib, becoming so hot that it would be uncomfortable to hold the 
hand tliereiu. The space between the false top and the cover 
is c-alled the vinegar fluid space, and it must be sufliciently tight 
In the loints of the tub, or box, to hold the fluid when put in. 
Now take a barrel of good vinegar and pour it into the top oi 



t8 DR. chase's eecipes. 

the tub, and let it drip through the gimlet holes, from' the eords, 
over the shaving, two or three times, each time putting in one 
gallon of highwines, or two or three gallons of cider, as the 
case may be, wliich sours the shavings and greatly helps the 
starting process of the vinegar-making. Without the addi- 
tion to tiie strength of the vinegar as it runs through, it 
would part with nearly all of its own strength or acidity, to the 
shavings and thus lose its own life. If you have not, nor can- 
not obtain, vinegar, to start with, you must begin with weak 
vinegar-fluid, and keep adding to it every time through until 
it becomes very sour ; then you will consider yourself ready 
to begin to make vinegar in double quick time, by using any 
of the fluids mentioned in the foregoing vinegar recipes. But 
manufacturers generally use highwines thirty to forty per 
cent above proof, one gallon ; water, eleven gallons ; but 
persons living a great distance from market will find a cheaper 
plan by using ninety eight per cent alchol, one gallon ; water 
fifteen gallons ; either of which make good vinegar, using 
yeast of course, w^ith either article, from one pint to one quart 
to each barrel being made. Another tub or vat must be se'o 
in the ground, under the generator, or in a cellar, as the case 
may be, to hold as nuich vinegar as the space between the 
false and real top will contain, or as much as you wish to 
make at one time ; from which it is to be carried up in 
buckets, (or a wooden pump having a leather sucker is 
quicker and easier to raise it,) to the top of the generator 
until it becomes good vinegar, wdiich it will do in the time 
mentioned at the head of this recipe, ifpassed through the gen- 
erator by the faucet every twelve hours which it must be ; and 
if the tubs are fifteen or twenty feet high, it will only need 
passing through once, or twice at most. 

Some will have no vinegar but that made from apple 
cider ; then put in one-third water, and it makes vinegar as 
strong as anybody ought to use ; but if they will have it at 
full strength, make it so, only it requires a little longer time 
to make. 

If those who have cider which has been standing a long 
time, and does not become vinegar, will reduce it one third 
with water, and pass it through this machine, they will grind 
out first rate vinegar in one or two days' time. Sour beer or 
ale, the artificial cider, also, if it gets sour, make good vinegar 
when mixed with some other vinegar in making. Small beer, 
also drippings from sugar hogsheads in place of molasses, &c. 
Nothing having sugar or alcohol in it should be thrown away, 
as all will make good vinegar, which is as good as each, and 
ought to be saved— if for no other purpose than to have the 
more to give the worthy poor. 



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!• vas at first thought to be absolutely necessary to makd 
the ^inegar-fluid of about seventy-five degrees of heat, and 
also to keep the room of the same temperature ; but It has 
bef n found that by keeping the heat in the tub by the false top 
and the loose cover, that in warm weather it does very well 
without heating up the fluid, although it would make a little 
^[uicker with it ; and if desired to make in cold weather, 
you must heat the fluid and keep the room warm also. 

If families choose to try this plan, they can make all 
they will need in a keg not larger than a common churn, 
whilst wholesalers will use tubs as tall as their rooms will 
admit. 

The first merchant to whom I sold this recipe, made all 
the vinegar he could retail by placing strips of board across 
the centre of a whisky barrel, which supported the shavings 
in the upper half only, allowing the vinegar to stand in the 
lower half; as his room was so low, he could only use the 
one barrel and a wash tub at the top instead of the false-top 
and space as represented in our cut; it took him only a week 
to make it in this way. I used the vinegar over a year. 
The strength of the fluid he used was good common whisky, 
one gal. ; water, four gals. So it will be seen that all 
kinds of spirit, or articles containing spirit, can be made into 
vinegar. 

Remark — If you wish to make sugar into vinegar, do not at- 
tempt to run it through the generator, as it forms mother in that 
way, and soon fills up the litlle holes ; but make it by standing 
in a ])arrel, as mentioned under that head, No. 4. 

8. Quick Process, by Standing upon Shavings. — Take 4 
or 5 hogsheads or casks, and set them side by side, having a fau- 
cet near the bottom ; then fill up the casks full of shavings pre- 
pared as in the foregoing recipe, or clean corn-cobs, putting 
some turning shavings over the top, after having put on an old 
cotfee sack to keep the fine shavings from falling down among 
the coarse ones ; this is to keep in the warmth ; now sour the 
shavings with the best vinegar, by throwing it on the shavings 
and letting it stand half a da}^ or so; then draw off by the fau- 
co-t at the bottom, and throw it on again, adding 1 qt. of high- 
wines to each ban el each time you draw it off, as the shavings 
absorb the acid, and t'^e vinegar would become fiat, but by add- 
ing the spirit the shavings become soured or acetified, and the 
vinegar gets better also. When the shavings are right, take 
high wines 30 or 40 per cent above proof 1 gal. ; molasses 1 qt. ; 
«ou water 14 gals. ; (river or well water will do, but not as good 



41 DB. chask's BKCIP^b. 

for any vinegar ) and put it upon the shavings, and d-raw off «xi« 
put on again from one to three times daily, until sufficiently 
sour to barrel up. 

Mr. Jackson, a Grocer, of Jackson, Michigan, has been 
making in this way for several years. He uses also, 8 our 
ale, rinsings of sugar hogsheads, or the drippings, and 
throws this fluid on the shavings, and draws off and returns 
from one to three times each day until sufficiently sour to bar- 
rel up, which only requires a few drawings ; he then fills hig 
barrels only two- thirds full, and leaves the bungs out sum- 
mer and winter, and if he finds a barrel is getting weak in 
Ptrength, he puts in a quart of highwines, which recruits 
the strength, or gives it work again, which, as I remarked 
before, if you give him stock to work on, and air, he labor.% 
— without both, he dies. Bear this in mind, and your vin- 
egar will improve all the time, no matter how, or of what it 
is made. He fills the tubs only ore-third or one-lialf fuli 
when making, does not heat, but uses yeast, and only work^ 
them in warm weather, and in winter fills the tubs with 
good vinegar, and lets them stand over until spring, wheo 
they are ready for work again. 

This man, with five casks tlius managed, has sold over 
three hundred barrels of vinegar in one season. 

It might not be amiss, in closing this lonrj subject, to say 
that when you have no vinegar to begin with in eithe?^ of 
the processes, that if you commence with the fluid quite 
weak at first, it begins to sour quicker than if begun with at 
full strength, then as it begins to become sour, add more of 
the spirit, cider, sugar, or molasses, &c., until you get tha 
desired point of strength. So you might go on until a swal- 
low of it would strangle a man to death, and remove every 
particle of skin from his throat. 

BUTTER.--TO Preser\^ any Length of TniK.— First 

'-work out all the buttermilk. Second — use rock salt. Third 
— pack in air-tight jars or cans. Fourth — keep in a cool place, 
and you will have nice butter for years, if desired to keep so 
long. A short recipe, but it makes long butter. 

Merchants, who take in more butter than they can sei) 
during the warm montlis, can put it into jars and cover the 
jar with about half an inch of lard over the top of the but- 
ter, and plac« it in the c<?llar ; or tbey can put about aw 



MERcn ants' and grocers L»£PaRTMENT. 41 

Inch or two of brine in place of the lard, and have it do 
well, first working out all the huttermilk which may remain, 
when bought in. It would be well for them to have their 
regular customers to furnish them butter, to whom they 
furnish tnc right kind of salt, as the rock, or crystal salt, 
does not contain so much lime as the common, which ia 
evaporated by artificial heat. Let sugar, and saltpeter, and 
ill oi\\QV 2^eters^ alone, if you wish good butter, cither fur 
pr^jsent use or long keeping. 

2. Making — Directions for Dairymen. — If butter makers 
or dairymen, will use only shallow pans for their milk — and 
She larger the curface, and the less the depth of the milk the 
better — then put into each pan, before straining, 1 qt. of cold 
spring-water to every 8 qts. of milk, they will tind the cream 
will begin to rise immediately, and skim every 12 hours, the 
butter will be free fi'om all strong taste arising from leaves, or 
coarse pasturage. 

It is a fact, also, that high or up-land makes better butter 
than when the cows are kept on rich bottom pasturage. The 
object of the cold water is double : it cools the milk, so that 
the cream rises before the milk sours, Tfor when milk be- 
comes sour it furnishes no more cream,; and also improves 
the flavor. 

8. Storing — The (Illinois) Prairie Farmer's Method.— 
First, work the buttermilk carefully from the butter ; then pack 
it closely in jars, laying a thin cloth on top of the butter, then a 
thin layer of salt upon the cloth ; now have a dry cellar, or 
make it so by drainmg, and dig a hole in the bottom of it for 
each jar, packing the dirt closely and tightly around the jar, al- 
lowing the tops of the jars to stand only an inch or so above 
the top of the cellar bottom ; now place a board with a weight 
upon each jar to prevent removing by accident, and all is safe. 

Merchants who are buying in butter, should keep each 
different lot separate, by using the thin cloth and salt, then 
another cloth oyer the salt before putting in the next lot, 
for mixed butter will soon spoil, besides not selling as well, 
and finally cover the top as before described. If kegs or 
barrels are used, the outside must be as well painted as pos- 
sible to prevent outside tastes, and also to preserve the wood. 

FRUITS TO KEEP.—Without Loss of Color or Flavor, 
— To each pound of rosin, put in 1 oz. of tallow, and 1 oz. of 
beeswax. Melt them slowlv over the fire in an iron kettle, and 
be careM and not let it boil. Take tha firuit sepaxately and rub 



42 DR. chase's recipes. 

ll over with whiting or fine chalk (to prevent the coating from 
adhering to the fruit,) then dip it into the solution once and hold 
it up a moment to set the coating; then pack away careful) v in 
barrels or boxes in a cool place. When you dip oranges or lem- 
ons, loop a thread around to hold them ; for pears or apples, in- 
sert a pointed stick to hold them by, then cut it off with a pair of 
sharp, heavy shears. Oranges or lemons cannot be put in boxes 
but must be placed on shelves, as the accumulated weight would 
mash them down. 

It is now a well established fact that articles put up sci* 
entifically air-tight, may be kept fresh and fair for any 
length of time, or until wanted for use. This composition 
makes good sealing for air-tight cans or bottles, pouring it 
around the top of the can cover, and dipping the neck of 
the bottle into it. A patent has been secured for a compo 
gition for preserving fruit, of different proportions, however, 
from the foregoing, but the agent, at the Ohio State Fair in 
1859, had such poor success in selling rights at three dol- 
lars that he reduced the price to twenty-five cents, and stiil 
but few would take hold of it, so that I think not much 
more will be done with the patent. I purchased twenty 
recipes for one dollar, but finding his composition to stick 
togctlier and tear off pieces wherever they touched each 
other, I went to work to improve it, as above. The patented 
proportions are, rosin 5 lbs., lard or tallow 8 oz., beeswax. 
4 oz. The patentee is John K. Jenkins, of Wyoming, Pa., 
and the patent was issued December 8, 1858. It does not 
work well on peaches or other juicy garden fruits. 

EGGS.— To Preseuve for Winter Use. — For every three 
gallons of water, put in 1 pt. of fresh slacked lime, and common 
salt 1-2 pt. ; mix well, and let the barrel be about half full 
of this fluid, then with a dish let down your fresh eggs into 
it, tipping the dish after it fills with water, so they roll out with- 
out cracking the shell, for if the shell is cracked the ^gg wlU 
spoil. 

If fresh eggs are put in, fresh eggs will come out, as 1 
have seen men who have kept them two, and even four, 
years, at sea. A piece of board may be laid across the top 
of the eggs, and a little lime and salt kept upon it, which 
keeps the fluid as strong at the top as at the bottom. I'his 
will not fail you. They must always be kept covered with 
the brine. Famili«« in towns and cities by this plan can 
hav3 eggs for winter use at symmer prices. 1 have put up 
foUY dozen , with entire success 



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Che plan of preserving eggs has undoubtedly come from 
a patent secured by a gentleman in England in 1791, 
Jaynes, of Sheffield, Yorshire, which reads as follows : 

2. English Patented ^Method. — " Put into a tub 1 hu. Win- 
chester measure, of quick lime, (\vhich is fresh shicked lime,J 
salt o2 oz. ; cream of tartar 8 oz. Use as much water as will 
give that consistency to the composition as will cause an egg to 
8wim with its top just above the liquid. Then put and keep 
the ^ggs therein, which will preserve them perfectly sound at 
least 2 years." 

Persons who think it more safe can follow this English 
plan. I desire in all cases to give all the information I 
have on each subject. Consequently I give you the follow- 
ing also : 

3. J. W. Cooper, M. D.'s, Method op Keeping and Ship- 
ping Game Eggs. — " Dissolve som.e gum shellac in a sufficient 
quantity of alcohol to make a thin varnish, give each egg a 
coat, and after they become thoroughly dry, pack them in bran 
or saw dust, with their points downwards, in such a manner 
thtit they cannot shiit about. After you have kept them as long 
as you desire, w^ash the varnish carefully off, and thej'' will be 
iii the same state as they were before packing, ready for eating 
or hatching." 

This would seem to be from good authority, as Dr. Cooper 
has been engaged for the last thirty years in raising nothing 
but the best game fowls, and he has frequently imported 
eggs. He invariably directed them to be packed as above, 
and always had good success with them, notwithstafiding 
the time and distance of the journey. He has also pub- 
lished a work upon Game Fowls, His address is Media, 
Delaware Co., Pa. 

This last plan would be a little more troublesome, but 
still v^Quld not be very much to prepare all that families 
woulc^ wish to use through the winter, or even for the 
retaiV/; as the convenience of having them in a condition 
to ship wouM be one inducement to use the last method, for 
T?ith the first they must be taken out and packed in oats or 
something of that sort, to ship ; with the last they are 
always ready ; and weather permitting, about Christmas or 
New Year's, fresh and good eggs in cities always command 
eufficient price to pay for all trouble and expense in th« 
Dreservation and shipment. 



44 DB. chabe's recipes. 

The Sex of Eggs. — Mr. Genin lately addressed thg 
Academy des Sciences, France, on the subject of the sex 
of eggs. He affirms that he is now able, after having stud- 
ied the subject for upwards of three years, to state with as- 
surance that the eggs containing the germ of males, have 
wrinkles on their smaller ends, while female eggs are smooth 
at the extremities. 

While on the subject of eggs, you will excuse me for 
putting in a couple of items more which appropriately b^ 
long to other departments : 

4. To Increase the Laying. — " For several years past 
I have spent a few weeks of the latter part of August on 
the Kennebec river, in Maine. The lady with whom I 
have stopped is a highly accomplished and intelligent house- 
wife. She supports a "Ir^nncry/^ and from her I derived 
my information in the matter. She told me that for many 
years she had been in the habit of administering to her 
hens, with theii common food: 

" Cayenne pepper, pulverized, at the rate of 1 tea-spoon each 
alternate day to 1 doz. fowls. 

"Last season, when I was with her, each morning she 
brought in from twelve to fourteen eggs, having but sixteen 
hens in all. She again and again experimented in the mat- 
ter by omitting to feed with the Cayenne for two or three 
days. The consequence invariably was that the product of 
eggs fell off five or six per day. The same effect of using 
the Cayenne is produced in winter as in summer." — Boston 
Transctnpt. 

5. To Fry— Extra Nice.— Three eggs ; flour 1 table-spoon ' 
milk 1 cup. 

Beat the eggs and flour together, then stir in the milk. 
Have a skillet with a proper amount of butter in it, made 
hot, for frying this mixture ; then pour it in, and when one 
side is done brown, turn it over, cooking rather slowly ; if a 
larger quantity is needed, it will require a little salt stirred 
in, but for this amount, the salt in the butter in which you 
fry it, seasons it very nicely. 

BURNING FLUID.— Best in Use.— Alcohol, of 98 per cent 
9 pts. ; good camphene 1 qt., or in these propoitions, Shako 



MEROHANTS' AND GROOERS' DEPARTMENT. 45 

t^rlskly, and it will at once become clear, when without the 
ihaking it would take from 6 to 7 qts. of alcohol to cut the cam- 
i)hene, while with the least it is the best 

These proportions make the best burning fluid which can 
be combined. Many put in camphor gum, alum, &e., the 
first to improve its burning qualities, the last to prevent ex- 
plosion, but they are perfectly useless for either, from (he 
tact that carapaor adds to the smoking properties, and noth- 
ing can prevent the gas arising from any fluid that ^iii 
burn, from explosion, if the fire gets to it when it is con- 
5ned. The only safety is in filling lamps in day-time, or 
far from fire or lights ; and also to have lamps which are 
perfect in their construction, so that no gas may leak out 
along the tube, or at the top of the lamp ; then let who will 
^y he can sell you a recipe for non-explosive gas or fluid, 
you may set him down at once for a humbug, ignoramus, or 
knave. Yet you may set fire to this fluid, and if not con- 
fined it will not explode, but will continue to burn until all 
IS consumed. Families cannot make fluid any cheaper than 
to buy it, as the profit charged on the alcohol is usually 
more than that charged on fluid ; but they will have a bet- 
ter article by this recipe than they can buy, unless it ia 
made from the same, and it is best for any one, even the 
retailer, only to make small quantities at a time, and get 
the freshest camphene possible. When made in lai-ge quan- 
tities, even a barrel, unless sold out very soon, the last part 
IS not as good as the first, owing to the separation of the 
camphene from the alcohol, unless frequently shaken, whilst 
being retailed out. 

INTEREST.— CoirpuTiNG by One Multiplicaton and Onb 
Division, at any Rate Per Cent, — Multiply the amount by 
the number of days, (counting 30 days to each month.) 
Divided by 60 gives the interest at 6 per cent 
do 45 a i« 8 " 

do 40 " ** 9 " 

do 36 " " 10 " 

do 30 " " 12 ♦* 

Example.-— $150 at 3 months and 10 days, or 100 days, is 
15000, divided by 60 gives $2,50 which is the interest at 6 per 
cent ; or divided by 45 gives $3,33 interest at 8 per cent, &c. 

I sold a gentleman, a miller, one of my books the second 
time, as some person stole the first before he became fami- 
liar with the foregoing rules, which he admired too mucb 
to lose. 



46 DR. chase's recipes. 

2 Method by a Single Multipltcation.— •Rule.—To fin^ 
the interest on any giren sum of money for any number of yeari^ 
mouths or days. Reduce the years to months, add in the montha 
if aay, take one-thiixl of the days a,nd set to the right of tb€ 
months, in decinuxl fonn, multiply this result by one -half the 
priccipal, and you have the hitercst lequired. 

Example. — Tlie interest requiird on $1,400 for 2 year^ 3 
months, and 9 days: 

Interest on $1,400 for 2 yr^^, 3 months, and 9 cUys, 

27.3 
700 



Answer requiicd, $191.10.0 

The above example 1*3 at six per cent. Rule to obtain the 
interest at any other rate : For seven per cent increase the 
interest at six per cent by one-sixth, for eight per cent by 
one-third, for nine per cent by one-half, for ten per cent by 
two- thirds, for eleven per cent by five-sixths, for twelve per 
cent multiply by two. Twelve per cent is the highest 
rate of interest allowed by any State, except Minnesota, 
which, I believe, allows fifteen per cent. 

In pointing off, persons will obsei*ve to point off as many 
figures in the product or answer as there are decimal points 
in the multiplicand. The^ balance, or remainder, sLow you 
the dollars and cents. 

COUNTERFEIT MONEY.— Seven Rules for De- 
tecting. — First — Examine the form and features of all 
human figures on the notes. If the forms are graceful and 
features distinct, examine the drapery — see if the folds lie 
natural ; and the hair of the head should be observed, and 
see if the fine strands can be seen. 

Second. — Examine the lettering, the title of the bank, 
or the round handwriting on the face of the note. On all 
genuine bills, the work is done with great skill and perfect- 
ness, and there has never been a counterfeit but was defects 
ive in tlie lettering. 

TniRD. — The imprint, or engraver's name. By observ- 
ing the great perfection of the different company names- 
in the evenness and shape of the fine letters, counterfeiters 
never get the imprint perfect. This rule alone, if strictjj 
observed, will detect every counterfeit note in existence. 



merchants' and grooers' department, ^ 47 

FeURTH. — The shading in the back-ground of th« vig- 
nette, or over or around the letters forming the name of the 
bank, on a good bill is even and perfect, on a counterfeit is 
irregular and imperfect. 

Fifth. — Examine well the figures on the other parts of 
the note, containing the denomination, also the letters. Ex- 
amine well the die work around the figures which stand for 
the denomination, to see if it is of the same character aa 
that which forms the ornamental work surrounding it. 

Sixth, — Never take a bill that is deficient in any of the 
above points, and if your impression is bad when you first 
eee it, you had better be careful how you become convinced 
to change your mind — whether your opinion is net alt<3red 
as you become confused in looking into the texture of the 
workmanship of the bill. 

Seventh. — Examine the name of the State, name of the 
bank, and name of the town where it is located. If it has 
been altered from a broken bank, the defects can plainly be 
seen, as the alteration will show that it has been stamped 
on. 

INKS—Black Copying, or Writing Fluid. — Rain wat^r 2 
gals. ; gum arable i lb. ; brown su "jar i lb. ; clean coperas i lb. ; 
powdered nutgalls f lb. ; bruise all, and mix, shaking occasion 
ally for 10 days, and strain ; if needed sooner, let ii steep in an 
U'on kettle until the strength is obtained. 

This ink can be depended upon for deeds or records 
which you may wish some one to read hundreds of years to 
coma. Oxalic acid one-fourth oz. was formerly put in, but 
since the use of steel pens it does not work well on thew. 
If not used as a copying ink, one-fourth the gum or sugar is 
Bufficient as it flows more free without them. 

2. Common Black. — Logwood chips 1 lb. ; boii in li gals, of 
water until reduced lo 2 qts. ; pour off, and repeat the boiluig 
aorain as before ; mix the two waters, 1 gal. in all ; then atid 
bi-chromate of potash i oz. ; prussiate of potash J or. ; prussit.te 
of iron (prussian blue) i oz. ; boil again about 5 minutes, and 
Etrain and bottle for use. 

li ou will find none of the guminess about this ink that 
18 found in that made from the extract of logwood ; yet it 
IS not presumed that this will be as durable as the gall inks, 
for deeds, records, &c., &c., but for schools and common use^ 



48^ DB. chase's R£CIP£d. 

it is as good as the most costly inks. Tlik copy was priD- 
pared with it, which was made two yeai's ago. 

3. Red — The Very Best. — Take an ounce vial and put into 
it a tea-spoon of aqua ammonia, gum arabic the siz« of 2 peas, 
and 6 grs. No. 40 carmine, and 5 grs. No. 6 or 8 cai*mine also ; 
fill up with sofX water and it is soon ready for use. 

This forms a beautiful ruling ink. I sold th« book in 
the Pike County Bank, 111., from the fact that this ink was 
go much better than what they could get of any other make. 
Speaking of banks, makes me think of what a gentleman 
of Michigan City, Ind., told me about a black ink for bank- 
ing purposes which would never fade, composed of twa 
articles only : 

Iron or steel filings and simple rain water, exposing it to the 
sun for a good length of time ; pale when first written with, but 
bcQpming ver^'' black. 

I have never thought to try it, but now mention it, for 
fear it might be good, and lost to the world, unless noF* 
thrown to the public, 

4. Blue.— -Take sulphate of indigo and put it into water until 
you get the desired depth of color ; that sold in jlittle boxes for 
blueing clothes is the article desired. 

This does well for school children, or any writing not of 
importance to keep ; but for book keeping it is not good, 
as the heat of a safe in a burning building fades away the 
color. 

5. Indellible. — Nitrate of silver 11 grs.; dissolve it in 30 
gi^., (or about a tea-spoon) of water of ammonia; in 85 gi*s. (or 
2i tea-spoons) of rain water, dissolve 20 grs. of gum arabic. 
When the gum is dissolved put into the same vial also 22 grs, 
of carbonate of s©da, (sal-soda.) When all is well dissolved, 
mix both vials, or their contents, and place the vial containing 
the mixture in a basin of, water, and boil for several minutes, 
or until a black compound is the result. Wheji cold it is ready 
for use. Have the linen or other goods starched and ironed, and 
perfectly dry ; then write with a quill pen. 

If twice the amount is made at a time it will not cost any 
more, as the expense is only from the trouble of weighing, 
so little is used of the materials. Soft soap and boiling; 
cannot efface it^ nor years of wear. Use only glass vessels. • 

6. Powder — Black. — Sulphate of copper 1 dr. ; gum arabio 
i oz. ; Qppperas 1 oz. ; nutg^ls and extract of logwood 4 ozs, 
«dch ; all to be pulverized and evenly mixed. — Sden^fio Americans 



MERGHANTS' AND GROCERS' DEPARTMENT. 49 

About one oz. of the mixture will be required to each 
l^mt of boiling water used. It will be found a valuable 
cobr for boot, shoe and harness-edge, also. It should stand 
a couple of weeks before using, or it may be steeped a few 
hours if needed sooner. 

HONiyYS. — Artificial Cuba Honey —Good browm sugar 
10 lbs. ; water 1 qt. ; old bee brea'^ hooey in the comb 2 lbs.; 
cream of tartar 1 tea-spoon ; gura arable 1 oz. ; oil of peppci- 
mint 3 drops; oil of rose 2 drops. Mix and boil 2 or 3 minutes 
and have ready 1 qt. more of water in which an egg is put well 
beat up ; pour it in, and as it begins t© boil, skim wxll, remove 
from the fire, and when a little cool, add 2 lbs. of nice bees' 
honey, and strain. 

This is really a nice article, looking and tasting like 
honey. It has been shipped in large quantities under the 
name of ^' Cuba Honey.'' It will keep any length of time 
as nice and fresh as when first made, if sealed up. Some 
persons use a table-spoon of slippery elm bark in this 
imount, but it will ferment in warm weather, and rise to the 
fop, requiring to be skimmed off. If it is to be used only 
sbr eating purposes, the cream-of-tartar and gam arabic may 
oe left out, also the old bee-bread honey, substituting for it 
mother pound of nice honey. 

2. Domestic Honey.— Coffee sugar 10 lbs. ; water 3 lbs. ; 
cream of tartar 2 ozs. ; strong vinegar 2 table-spoons : the white 
of 1 egg well beaten ; bees' honey i lb. ; Lubin's extract of honey- 
suclde 10 drops. 

First put the sugar and water into a suitable kettle and 
place upon the fire ; and when luke-warm stir in the cream 
of tartar, and vinegar; then continue to add the egg} and 
when the sugar is nearly melted put in the honey and stir 
until it comes to a boil, take it off, let it stand a few min- 
utes, then strain, adding the extract of honeysuckle last, let 
stand over night, and it is ready for use. This resembles 
candied honey, and is a nice thing. 

3. Excellent Honey. — An article suitable for ever^-^ 
day use is made as follows : .| 

Good common sugar 5 lbs. ; water 1 qt. ; gradually bring it to'' ^ 
a boO, skimming well ; when cool, add 1 lb. bees* honey and 4 
drops of peppermint essence. 

If you desire a better article, use white sugar and one- 
half pint less wateor and one-half pound more honey. If it is 

COP 



60 DR. chase's recipes. 

desired to give it the ropy appearance of bees' honey, put 
into the water one-fourth ounce of alum. 

4. Premium Honey. — Common sugar 4 lbs. ; water 1 pt. ; let 
them come to a boil, and skim; then add pulverized alum J- oz. ; 
remove from the fire and stir in cream of tartar ^ oz. ; and water 
or extract of rose 1 table-spoon, and it is fit for use. 

This took the premium at an Ohio State Fair. We use 
the recipes for common sugar and ttie one using Lubin's 
extract of honeysucklp, and desire nothing better. 

JELLIES — Without Fruit. — Take water 1 pt. and add to it 
pulverized alum i oz., and boil a minute or two ; then add 4 lbs. 
of uhite crushed or colfee sugar, continue the boiling a little, 
strain while hot; and when cold put in half of a two shilling 
bottle of extract of vanilla, strawberry, or lemon, or any other 
flavor you desire for jolly. 

This will make a jelly so much resembling that made 
from the juice of the fruit that any one will be astonished 
and when fruit cannot be got, it will take its place admira- 
bly. I have had neighbors eat of it and be perfectly aston- 
ished at its beauty and palatableness. 

BAKING POWDERS— Without Drugs.— Baking soda 6 
ozs. ; cream of tartar 8 oz. ; first dry them from all dampness 
by putting them on a paper and placing them in the oven for a 
short time, then mix and keep dry, in bottles or boxes. 

The proper amount of this will be about one tea-spoon to 
each quart of flour being baked. Mix with cold water, and 
bake immedlatehj. This contains none of the drugs gen- 
erally used for baking powders ; it is easy made, and does 
not cost over half as much as to buy them ah-eady made. 
This makes biscuit very nice without milk or shortening. 
Yet if milk is used, of course it would be that much richer. 
The main object of baking powders is for those who are 
" Keeping bach, " as it is called, or for those who are far 
from civilized conveuicncies, and for those who prefer this 
kind of bread or biscuit to that raised with yctist or sour 
milk and saleratus. I stand among the latter class. 

MOXJTTI GLUE— For Torn Paper, Notes, v^c— Any quan- 
tity of glue may be used, with sugar, on\y half as much as oi 
the glue. 

First dissolve the glue in water, and carefully evaporate 
fts much of the water as you can without Kw^jn^-^ .*j|><5 glue ; 



SALOON DEPARTMENT, 61 

then add the sugar ; if desired to have a very nice article, 
use gelatine in place of the glue, and treat in the same 
manner ; when the sugar is dissolved in the glue pour it 
into moulds or a pan and cut it into squares, for conve- 
nience, before it gets too hard. This dissolves very quickly 
by placing the edge of a piece in the mouth, and is not 
unpleasant to the taste, and is very handy for office or house 
use. Use to stick together torn bills, paper, &c., by soften- 
ing the edge of a piece, as above, then touching the parts 
therewith and pressing together for a moment only. 



SALOON DEPARTMENT. 

Remarks. — If saloon keepers, and grocers, who deal in 
wine, beer, cider, &c., will follow our directions here, and 
make some of the following articles, they, and their custom- 
ers, will be better pleased than by purchasing the spurious 
articles of the day ; and families will find them equally appli- 
cable to their own use. And although toe start with an ar^ 
tificial cider, yet it is as healthy, and is more properly a 
small beer, which it should be called, but from its close re- 
semblance to cider, in taste, it has been so named. 

CIDERS.— Artificial, or Cider without Apples.— To cold 
water 1 gal., put dark brown sugar 1 lb. ; tartaric acid ^ oz. ; 
yeast 3 table-spoons, and keep these proportions for any amount 
desired to make ; shake it well together. Make it in the evening 
and it will be fit for use the next day. 

I make in a keg a few gallons at a time, leaving a few 
quarts to make into next time — not using yeast again until 
the keg needs rinsing. If it gets a little sour make more 
into it. In hot weather draw in a pitcher with ice ; or if 
your sales are slow, bottle it and keep in a cool cellar accor- 
ding to the next recipe. 

2. To Bottle. — If it is desired to bottle this artificial 
cider by manufacturers of small drinks, you will proceed as 
follows : 

Put into a barrel, hot water 5 gals. ; brown sugar 30 lbs. ; tar- 
taric acid I lb. ; cold water 25 gals. ; hop or brewers' yeast 8 
pts. ; work the yeast into a paste with flour { lb. ; shake or stif 



52 DR. CHAJsJS'S RECIPES 

all well together; fill the bairel full, and let it work 24 to ^ 
hours, or until the yeast is done working out at the bung, by 
having put in a little sweetened water occasionally to keep the 
barrerfull. 

When it has worked clear, bottle it, putting in two or 
three broken raisins to each bottle, and it will nearly equal 
champagne. Let the bottles lay in a cool place on the sid^ 
— (observe also this plan of laying the bottles upon the 
side, in putting away apple-cider or wine) — but if it is only 
for your own retail trade you can make as follows in the 
next recipe, and have it keep until a barrel is retailed. The 
first recipe will last only three or four days in hot weather, 
and about two weeks in winter. 

3. In Barrels for Long Keeping. — If retailers wish 
to keep this cider, with the least possible loss of time, or 
families for their own drink or for the harvest field, proceed 
as follows : 

Place in a keg or barrel, cold water 20 gals. ; brown sugar 15 
lbs., and tartaric acid i lb. only, not using any yeast, but if you 
have them, put in 2 or 3 lbs. dried sour apples, or boil them and 
pour in the expressed juice ; without the yeast it will keep, in a 
cool cellar, for several weeks, even in summer. The darker the 
sugar the more natural will be the color of the cider. 

Dr. 0. B. Reed, of Belle River, Mich., with whom I 
read medicine, drank of this cider freely, while sick with 
bilious fever, knowing its composition, and recommended it 
to his patients as soon as he got out amongst them again, 
as a drink that would allay thirst, with the least amount of 
fluid, of any thing with which he was acquainted. But 
Bome will prefer Prof Hufeland's drink for Fever Patients, 
which see. 

4. Apple Cider, to Keep Sweet, with but Tri- 
fling Expense. — Two things are absolutely necessary to 
preserve cider in a palatable state for any considerable 
time ; that is, to clear it of pomace, and then to keep it in 
a cool place, and the cooler the place the better. And then 
if kept air-tight, by bottling, it is also better, but farmers 
cannot take the time nor expense of bottling. Some per- 
sons leach it through charcoal, and others boil, or rather 
scald and skim, to get clear of the pomace. In the first 
place, cider, that is designed to keep over winter, should be 



SALOON DEPARTMENT. 08 

5^<!e from ripe, aound^ sour applet <ly, and consequently 
t will be getting cool weather^ and idss likely to ferment, 
iliea when made : 

Stand in open casks or barrels, and put into each barrel aboui 
I pt. each of liickory, (if you have them, if not other hard wood), 
islies and fresh slacked lime ; stir the ashes and lime first into 
I qt. of new milk ; then stir into the cider. It will cause ail tha 
pomace to rise to the surface, from which you can skim it as it 
rises, 01 you can let it remain about 10 hours, then draw off by 
a fVxucet near the bottom, through a strainer, to avoid the hard* 
ened pomace. 

It is now ready for bottling, or barreling, if too much 
trouble to bottle. If you barrel it, it has been found essen- 
tial to sulphur the barrel. The sulphuring is done by dip- 
ping cotton cloth into melted sulphur, and drying it ; then 
cutting into strips about two by six inches. Put about 
three gallons of cider into the barrel ; fire one end of the 
strip of the sulphured cloth, and introduce it into the bung- 
hole, and hold it by means of the bung, giving it air suffi- 
cicnt to let it burn, keeping the smoke in as it burns, when 
V^ou will push the bung in tight and shake the barrel until 
the sulphur-gas is absorbed into the cider; then fill up the 
barrel with cider, and if not already in the cellar, place it 
there, and you have accomplished the two points first spoken 
of. If the above plan is too much labor, get oil barrels, if 
possible, to keep your cider in, (as vinegar can scarcely be 
made in an oil barrel, )the oil coming out a little and form- 
ing an air-tight coat on the top of the cider in the barrel 
Or; 

5. ISlake your cider late in the Fall, and when made, put 
\nto each barrel, immedii*tely, ground mustard i lb.; salt 2 oz.; 
pulverized chalk 2 oz. ; stir them up in a little of the cider, then 
pour into the barrel, and shake well. 

I have drank cider, kept in this way, in August, which 
was made in early spring ; it was very nice. 

6. I have had cider keep very nice, also, by keeping in 
% cool cellar, and putting into each barrel : 

Mustard seed 2 oz. ; allspice 2 oz. ; sweet oil i pt., and acohol 
X pt. only. 

Always ship your cider, if you have cider to ship, late in 
ti\e fall, or early in spring, for if taken out of a cool cellar 



64 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES; 

in hot weather it is sure to start fermentation. If wanted 
for medicine, proceed as in the fellowing recipe : 

7. To Prepare for Medicine. — To each barrel of 
c^cr just pressed from rip 5, sour apples, not watered : 

Take mustard seed, ud ground, 1 lb. ; isinglass 1 oz. ; alnm pul 
verized 1 oz. ; put all into the barrel, leave the bung out, and 
shake or stu- once a day for four days, then take new milk 1 qt., 
and half a dozen eggs, beat well together, and put them into the 
cider and stir or shake again, as before, for 2 days; then let 
It settle until you see that it is clear, and draw off by a faucet. 

And if you wish to use in place of wine, in medicine, 
put it into bottles ; but if designed for family use you can 
barrel it, bunging it tight, and keep cool, of course, and 
you will have a very nice oMicle^ if the cider was not made 
too near a well, or running stream of water ; \jMt it is found 
that if made too ' near these, the cider does not keep. 
Judge ye why ! 

In some parts of England, by using only ripe, sound ap- 
ples^ letting it work clear, racking off about twice, bottling, 
&c., &c., cider is kept from twenty to thirty years. When 
cider is drawn off and bottled, it should not be corked until 
the next day after filling the bottles, as many of them will 
burst. Then lay on the side. 

SYRUPS.— To Make the Various Colors.— Powder coclii- 
neal 1 oz. ; soft water 1 pt. ; boil the cochineal in the water fox 
a few minutes, using a copper kettle; while boiling, add ^0 gra. 
of powdered alnm, and 1 dr. of cream of tartar; when the col- 
oring matter is all out of the cochineal, remove it from the fire, 
and when a little cool, strain, bottle ana set aside for use. 

This gives a beautiful red, and is used in the strawb^^rry 
syrups only. Colored rather deep in shade. Pine apple ia 
lefl without color. Wintergreen is colored with tincture of 
camwood, (not deep.) Lemon and ginger with tincture 
of turmeric. (See Tinctures.) The two hist named syrupi 
are not colored high — a light shade only. 

2. Artificial, Various Flavors. — The ground-work of all 
syrups onght to be the same, i. e.. Simple Synip; to make it, 
take 2^ lbs. of the best coflee sugar, wliich is found not to crys- 
talize, and water 1 pt., or what is the same, GO lbs. sugar, waier 
3 gals. 

Dissolve the sugar in the wat^r by heat, removing any 



SALOON D£PA&TM£NT« 65 

6ccm tli*cit forms upon it, and strain while hot. This can be 
kr;pt in a barrel or keg, and is always ready to flavor, as 

desired. 

3. IIaspberry — Is made as follows : 

Take orris root, bruised, any quantity, say J lb., and just hnnd- 
somely cover it with dilute alcohol, (76 per cent, alcohol, and 
Witter, equal quantities,) so that it cannot be made any stronger 
ol the root. 

This is called the " Saturated Tincture ;'^ and use suffi- 
ci^mt of this tincture to give the desired or natural taste of 
fch<; raspberry, from which it cannot be distinguished. 

4. Strawberry — Flavor is as follows : 

The saturated tincture of orris, as above, 2 ozs., acetic-ether, 3 
drs. ; mix, and use sufficient to give the desked flavor — a very 
littJe only is required, in either case. 

6. Pine Apple flavor is made by using to suit the taste, 
of batyrio-ether. If persons have any doubt of these facts 
siiiiply, try them. Some think syrups even for fountains, 
charged with carbonic acid gas, that it is best to use about 
three-fourths oz. of tartaric acid to each gallon, but I 
prefer none unless the fountain is charged with the super- 
caroonate of soda, in which case it is necessary to use about 
chrcc-fourths oz. of the acid to each pound of sugar. See 
Soda Syrups. 

Tills, above plan, for making simple syrup, is the true 
^ay of making all syrups ; but some people think they must 
iise more water, that the syrup may be cheaper. Others 
will object to using artificial flavors. Oh ! they say : *' I 
Duy \he genuine article.'' Then, just allow me to say, 
don't buy the syrups nor the extracts, for ninety-nine hun- 
dredths of them are not made from the fruit, but are artifi- 
cial. Hather make your own, as given under the head of 
Jams and Extracts. For the more watery syrups, see ''■ Soda 
Syrups.^' 

6. Sarsaparilla — Is very nice as follows : 

Simple syrup, as above, and nice golden s}Tup, equal quanti- 
ties of Crich, and mix well ; then use a few drops of oils of win- 
tergreen and sassafras to each bottle, as used. 

The tumounts for the desired flavors cannot be given ex^ 
»(tctly to suit every one, but all will wish different flavors 



56 DR. ohabe'b beoipes. 

in some towns, using very high flavor, and in others s^^ 
eient to percieve it, merely. All will soon get a ph a of 
their own, and like it better than that of others. This 
mixture of golden syrup makes the sarsaparilla a be. utiful 
dark color without other coloring. 

7. Lemon Syrup, Common, — Was formerly made Sy dia^ 
solving four pounds of crushed sugar in one quart of water, 
by boiling, and adding three ounces of tartaric acd and 
flavoring with the oil of lemon ; but it is best mado aa fol- 
lows: 

Coffee sugar 3 lbs ; water 1^ pts. ; dissolve by gentle heat, and 
add citric acid 3 ozs., and flavor with oil or extxact of lemon. 
See ** Extracts." 

8. Or a very nice lemon syrup is made as follows : Take cit- 
ric acid in powder i oz. ; oil of lemon 4 drops ; simple syrup 1 
quart. 

Rub the acid and oil in three or four spoons of the syrup^ 
then add the mixture to the remainder, and dissolve with 
gentle heat. Citric acid is not as likely to cause inflanmia- 
tion of the stomach as the tartaric, hence, its better adapta- 
tion to syrups calculated for drinks, and especially in distase. 

9. Lemon Syhup — To Save the Loss op Lemons.— Where 
you have lemons that are spoiling or drying up, take the insides 
which are yet sound, squeeze out the juice, and to each pint put 
\i lbs. white sugar, and a little of the peel ; boil a few mmuies, 
strain and cork for use. 

This will not require any acid, and one-half tea-spoon of 
soda to three-fourths of a glass of water with two or thiee 
table-spoons of syrup, makes a foaming glass. Some per- 
sons think they ought to put in water, but if water is added 
the syrup will not keep as well, and takes more of it 

10. Soda Syrup, With or Without Fountains. — The com- 
mon or more watery syrups are made by using loaf or crushed 
sugar 8 lbs. ; pure water 1 gal. ; gum arabic 2 oz. ; mix in a 
brass or copper kettle; boil until the gum is dissolved, then 
skim and strain through white flannel, after which add tananc 
acid 6i oz. ; dissolved in hot water ; to flavor, use extract ot 
lemon, orange, rose pine-apple, peach, sarsaparilla,. strawberry^ 
&C,, i oz. to each bottle, or to your taste. 

Now use two or three table-spoons of the syrup to three- 
foart^hn df A tumbler of water and one-half tea-spoon of 



SALOi^N DEPARTMENT, 57 

fiper carbonate of soda, made fine ; stir well and be ready to 
Iriiik, or use th« soda in water as mentioned in the "Impe- 
cjal Cream Nectar;'' the gum arabic, however, holds the 
>^rbonic acid so it will not fly off as rapidly as common 
ioda. The above is to be used icithout fountains, that is to 
make it up as used, in glasses, or for the cheaper fountains 
i^hich have an ounce of super-carbonate of soda to the gal- 
lon of water 5 but for the fountains which are charged, in 
ihe cities, with carbonic acid gas, no acids are used in tti^ 
lyrupa. 

11. Cream Soda, Using Cow's Ckeam, fok FouNTAiNa--» 
^^ice loaf sugar 5 lbs.; sweet rich cream 1 qt. ; water 1^ gills; 
^^arm gradually so as not to bm*n ; extract of vanilla f ©z. ; ex- 
i3*ACt of nutmeg i oz. 

Just bring to a boiling boat, for if you cook it any length 
of time it will crystalize; use four or five spoons of this 
gyrup ins+ead of three as in other syrups. If used without 
a fountain, tartaric acid one-quarter pound is added. The 
tendency of this syrup is to sour rather quicker than other 
syrups, but it is very nice while it lasts ; and if only made 
in small quantities and kept cool, it more than pays for the 
trouble of making often. 

12. Cream Soda, without a Fountain. — Coffee sugar 4 lbs ; 
water 3 pts. ; nutmegs grated 3 in number ; whites oi 10 eggs 
well beaten ; gum arabic 1 oz. ; oil of lemon 20 dro])s ; or ex- 
tract equal to that amount. By using oils of other fruits you 
can make as many flavors from this as you desire, or prefer. 

Mix all and place over a gentle fire, and stir well about 
thvrty minutes ; remove from the fire, strain, and divide 
inio two parts ; into one-half put supercarbonate of soda 
ei^ht ounces ; and into the other half put six ounces tartaric 
acid; shake well, and when cold they are ready to use, by 
potiring three or four spoons, from both parts, into separate 
glasses which are one-third tall of cool water ; stir each and 
ponr together, and you have as nice a glass of cream soda as 
waft ever drank, which can also be drank at your leisure, as 
the ^;um and eggs hold tho gas. 

13. SoD\ Watek, Without a jVlACinNE for Bottling. — 
In eacli gallon of water to be used, carefully dissolve i lb. of 
fiasheu sugar, and 1 oz. of super-carbonate of soda ; then fill 
^ elf-pint bottles ^vitb this w^ter, have your corks ready , now 



58 DE. chase's recipes. 

drop into each bottle % ^^- ^^ citric acid in crystals, and im- 
mediately cork and tie down. 

These bottles must be bandied carefully without shaking", 
and keep cool, until needed; a little more or less sugar can 
be used to suit the taste of different persons. 

OYSTER SOUP.— To each dozen or dish of oysters put J^ 
pt. water ; milk 1 gill ; butter J^^ oz. ; powdered crackers to 
thicken. Bring the oysters and water to a boil, then add the 
other ingredients previously mixed together, and boil from 3 
to 5 minutes only. 

Each one will choose to add salt, pepper, &c., to their own 
taste. Keep about these proportions if you should have to 
cook for an oyster supper, for parties, &c. 

TRIPE — To Prepare and Pickle. — First sew it up, after 
it is turned inside out ; be careful to sew it up tight, that no 
lime gets into it ; now have a tub of lime-water, the consis- 
tence of good thick white-wash : let it remain in from 10 to 
20 minutes, or until when you take hold of it, the dark out- 
side skin will come off; then put it into clean water, chang- 
ing three or four times to weaken the lime, that tiic hands be 
not injured by it ; then with a dull knife scrape oft' all of the 
dark surface, and continue to soak and scrape several times 
which removes all offensive substances and smell. After this, 
let it soak 20 or 30 minutes in 2 or ^..hot waters, scraping 
over each time ; then pickle in salt ana water 12 hours, and it 
is ready for cooking ; boil from 3 to 4 hours, cut in strips to 
suit, and put it into nice vinegar with the various spices, as 
desired ; renew the vinegar at the expiration of 1 week, is all 
that will be required further. 

Many persons stick up their nose when tripe is spoken of; 
but, if nicely prepared, I prefer it to any dish furnished by 
the beef. 

MOLASSES CANDY AND POP-CORK BALLS— Candy. 

— Equal quantities of brown sugar and molasses, and put 
them into a suitable kettle — copper is the best — and when it 
begins to boil, skim it well, and strain it, or else pour it 
through a fine wire sieve to free it of slivers and sticks which 
are often found in the sugar ; then return it to the kettle and 
continue to boil, until, when you have dipped your hand in 
cold water and passed one or two fingers through the boil- 
ins: candy and immediately back to the cold water, wiiat 
adheres, when cold, will crush like dry Qgg shells, and docs 
not adhere to the teeth when bitten. When done, pour it on 
a stone or platter w^hich has been greased, and as it gets cool 
begin to throw up the edges and w^ork it by pulling on 
a hook or by the hand, until bright and glistening like 
gold ; the hands should have a little flour on them occasion' 



SALOON UiiriARTMENT. 59 

rilv ; now keep the mass by a warm stove, (if much is made 
at one time), and draw it into stick size, occasionally rolling 
them CO keep round, until all is pulled out and cold, then with 
shears cii[) a little upon them, at proper lengths for the? sticks, • 
and they will snap quickly while yet the stick will bend, nc 
color no butter, no lard or flavor is used or need be, yet any oil 
cjin be used for flavoring, if desired, when poured out to cool. 

Sugar left in molasses barrels works very nicely in thia 
preparation. Pulverized white sugar sprinkled amongst it 
will prevent it from sticking together- 

2. Candy Perfectly White. — If it is desired to have 
candy that is perfectly white, proceed as follows : 

Best coffee sugar 2i lbs. ; the nicest syrup H pts. ; boi! very 
carefully, until when tried as above, it crisps like eg^ shells, or 
files like glass; then di'aw and work upon the hook until very 
white. 

3. Molasses Candy Without Sugar. — Porto-Rico^molasses 
boiled and worked as above, has a cream shade according to the 
amount of pulling, and most persons i)refer it to the mixture of 
sugar and molasses, as in the flrst. 

4. Pop Corn Balls.— Pop the corn, avoiding all that is not 
niccl}' opened; place i bu. of the corn upon a table or in a large 
dripping pan; put a little water in a suitable kettle with sugar 
I lb.; and boil as for candy, until it becomes quite waxy in 
water, when tried as for candy ; then remove from the fire and 
dip into it G to 7 table-spoons of thick gum solution, made by 
pouring boiling water upon gum arable, over night, or some 
hours before ; now dip the mixture upon dilTerent pails of the 
corn, putting a stick, or the hands, under the corn, lilting up 
and mixing until the corn is all saturated with candy mixture ; 
then with the hands press the corn into balls, as the boys do 
snow balls, being quick, lest it sets before you get through. 

. This amount will make about one hundred balls, if prop- 
erly done. White or brown sugar may be used. And for 
variety, white sugar for a part, and molasses or syrup for 
another batch. Either of these are suited to street ped- 
diars. 

5. Action of sugar or Candy on the Teeth. — M 
Larez, ot l^Vance, in the course of his investigations on the 
teeth, has arrived at the following conclusions: 

First— that " refined sugar, either from cane or beet, is injuri- 
ous to healthy teeth, either by immediate contact with these or- 
%ijm^ or by the gas developed, owing to ita stoppage in the 



t50 DR. chase's recipes. 

Btomack Secona— that if a tooth is macerated in a satu^t^^j 
solution of sugar, it is so mucli altered in the chemical composi- 
tiou that it becomes gelatinous, and its enamel opaque, spon^, 
and easily broken. This modification is due not to free acid, 
but to a tendency of sugar to combine with tlie calcareous basia 
of the teeth." 

I have destroyed my own teeth, I have no doubt now, by 
constantly eating candies, while in the grocery business, be- 
fore I knew its injurious eflfects, and I helieve it to have de- 
stroyed the first teeth of all of my children which were 
bo.n during my candy-eating propensities. What say our 
candy-eating gentry to the above % 

LEMONADE.— -To Carry in the Pocket. — Loaf sugar t 
lb. ; rub it down finely in a mortar, and add citric acid i oz. ; 
(tartaric acid will do,) and lemon essence \ oz., and continue the 
trituration until all is intimately mixed, and bottle for use. It is 
best to dry the powders as mentioned in the Persian Sherbet, 
next following. 

A rounding table-spoon can he done up in a paper and car- 
ried conveniently in the pocket when persons are going into 
out-of-the-way places,- and added to half pint of cold water, 
when all the beauties of a lemonade will stand before you 
waiting to be drank, not costing a penny a glass. This can 
be made sweeter or more sour, if desired. If any howevei 
should prefer an effervescing drink, they can follow the di- 
rections given in the next recipe. 

Persian Sherbet. — Pulverized sugar 1 lb. ; super-carbonate 
of soda 4 ozs. ; tartaric acid 3 ozs. ; put all the articles into the 
Btove oven when moderately warm, being separate, upon paper 
or plates ; let them remain sufficiently long to dry out all damp- 
ness absorbed from the air, then rub about 40 drops of lemoa 
oil, (or if preferred any other flavored oil,) thoroughly with the 
sugar in a mortar — wedge- wood is the best — then add the soda 
and acid, and continue the rubbing until all are thoroughly 
mixed. 

Bottle and cork tight, for, if any degree of moisture is 
ermitted to reach it, the acid and soda neutralize each 
>ther, and the virtue is thus destroyed. A middling sized 
table-spoon or two tea-spoons of this put into a half pint 
glass and nearly filled with water and quickly drank, makes 
an agreeable summer beverage ; and if three or lour glass- 
es of it are taken within a short time, say an hour or two 
it has the effect of a gentle cathartic, hence for those habit 



SALOON DEPARTMENT. 61 

oally costive it would be found nearly or quite equal to th« 
seidlitis powder, and for children it would be the plcasantest 
of the two. [The printers have tried it, and can bear tes- 
timony to its good qualities.] 

BEERS. — Root Beer.— -For each gallon of water to be used, 
take hops, burdock, yellow dock, sarsaparilla, dandelion, and 
spikenard roots, bruised, of each ^ oz. ; boil about 20 minutes, 
and strain while hot, add 8 or 10 drops of oils of spruce and 
sassafras mixed in equal proportions , when cool enough not to 
scald your hand, put in 2 or 3 table-spoons of yeast ; molasses ] 
of a pint, or white sugar i lb. gives it about the right sweetness. 

Keep these proportions for as many gallons as you wish 
to make. You can use more or less of the roots to suit 
your taste after trying it ; it is best to get the dr^ ^mts, or 
dig them and let them get dry, and of course you can add 
any other root known to possess medicinal properties desired 
in the beer. After all is mixed, let it stand in a jar with a 
cloth thrown over it, to work about two hours, then bottle 
and set in a cool place. This is a nice way to take altera- 
tives, without taking medicine. And families ought to make 
it every Spring, and drink freely of it for several weeks, 
Bad thereby save, perhaps, several dollars in doctors' bills. 

2. Spruce or Aromatic Beer.-— For 3 gals, water put in 1 qt. 
and i pt. of molasses, 3 eggs well beaten, yeast 1 gill. Into 2 
qts. of the water boiling hot put 60 drops of any oil you wish 
the flavor of; or mix 1 oz. each, oils sassafras, spruce and win- 
tergreen, then use 50 drops of the mixed oils. 

Mix all, and strain ; let it stand two hours, then bottle, 
oearing in mind that yeast must not be put in when the 
fluid would scald the hand. Boiling water cuts oil for beers, 
equal to alcohol 

3. Lemon Beer. — Water 30 gals. ; ginger root bruised 6 ozs. ; 
liream of tartar i lb. ; coffee sugar 13 lbs. ; oil of lemon 1 oz. ; 
or i oz. of the oil may be used, and 6 good sized lemons, sliced ; 
yeast 1^ pts. 

Boil the ginger and cream of tartar, about twenty to thirty 
minutes, in two or three gallons of the water ; then strain it 
upon the sugar and oils or sliced lemons, which have been 
rubbed together, having warm water enough to make the 
whole thirty gallons j ust so you can hold your hand in it 
^iUiout burning, or about seventy degrees of heat; then 



62 DR. chase's recipes. 

work up the yeast into a paste, as for the cider, with five or 
six ounces of flour. Let it work over night, skimming off the 
yeast, or letting it work over as the cider, then strain and 
bottle for use. This will keep fifteen or twenty days. The 
Port Huronites think it a splendid drink. 

4. Ginger Beer. — White sugar 5 lbs. ; lemon juice 1 gill ; 
honey ^ lb. ; ginger, bruised, 5 ozs. ; water 4^ gals. 

Boil the ginger thirty minutes in three qts. of the water; 
then add the other ingredients, and strain ; when cold, put 
in the white of an e^^^y well beaten, with one tea-spoon of 
lemon essence — let stand four days, and bottle. It will 
keep for months — much longer than if yeast was used ; the 
honey, however, operates mildly in place of yeast. 

5. r'HiLADELPniA Beer. — Water 30 gals. ; brown sugar 20 Iba. ; 
gmger, bruised, 1^ lbs. ; cream of tartar i lb. ; super carbonate 
of soda 3 ozs. ; oil oi lemon, cut in a little alcohol, 1 tea-spoon 
whites of 10 eggs, wxll beaten ; hops 2 ozs. ; yeast 1 qt. 

The ginger root and hops should be boiled twenty oi 
thirty minutes in enough of the water to make all milk 
warm, then strained into the rest, and the yeast added and 
llowed to work over night; skimmed and bottled. 

C. Patent Gas Beer. — Ginger 2 ozs. ; allspice 1 oz. ; cinna- 
mon ^ oz. ; cloves i oz. ; all brtiised or ground ; molasses 2 qts. , 
cold water 7^ gals. ; yeast 1 pt. 

Boil the pulverized articles, for fifteen or twenty minutes, 
in the molasses; then strain into your keg, and add the 
water, then the yeast; shake it well together and bung 
down. If made over night it will be ready for use the next 
day. There ought to be a little space in the keg not filled 
with the beer. This beer is ahead of all the pops and min- 
eral waters of the day, for flavor, health or sparkling quali- 
ties or speed in making. Be careful you do not burst the 
keg. In hot weather, draw in a pitcher with ice. I have 
sold this in the principal towns of Ohio, Indiana and JMich- 
igan, traveling with a caravan, and obtained two dollars for 
the recipe of the man who kept the inside stand, and llow- 
ed the head out of the first keg of it which he made. 

7. Corn Beer, Without Yeast.— Cold water 5 gals. ; sQvxid 
nice corn 1 qt. ; molasses 2 qts. ; put all into a keg of this si^.e; 
shake well, and in 2 or 3 days a fermentation will have beea 
brought on as nicely as with yeast Keep it bunged tight 



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It may bo flavored with oils of spruce or lemon, if desir- 
f'A, hf pouring on to the oils one or two quarts of the water, 
^oIlirl^.1; hot. Tlie corn will last five or six ujjikings. If it 
gets too L' ur ^dd more molasses and water in tlie same pro- 
portions. It is v,ieap, healthy, and no bother with yeast. 

8. Str: '^'G Bker, Engltsu Imckoved. — ISLalt 1 peck; coarse 
brown sufe^. "Olbs. ; hops 4 02.; good yeast 1 tea-cup; if you 
have not m^ '^ take a little over 1 peck of bailey, (twice the 
amount o* oats .rt'ill do, but are not as good,) and put it into an 
oven aftr»r the bread is drawn, or into a stove ovcu, and steam 
llie moisture Irom them. Grind coarsely. 

Now pour upon the ground mall 8^ gals, of water at 170 or 
172^ ol heat. The tub in which you scald the malt should 
have a false bott,":ni, 2 or 3 inches from the real bottom ; the 
false bottom should ^e bored full ot gimlet holes, so as to act as 
a simmer, to keep V^ck the malt meal. When the water is 
poured on, stir them well, and let it stand 3 hours, and draw ofl 
by a faucet ; put in 7 gals, more of water at 180 to 182 ^ ; stir it 
well, and let it stand 2 hours and draw it off. Tlier jiul on a 
gal. or two of cold water, sth'n-well and draw it ofl ; you should 
have about 5 or 6 gals. Put the 6 lbs. of coarse brown sugar in an 
equal amount of water; mix with the wort, and boll 1^ 10 2 
hours with ihe hops; you should have eight gals, wliun boiled; 
wheu cooled to 80^ put iu the yeast, and let it work 18 to 20 
hours, covered with a sack; use sound iron hooped kegs or por- 
ter bottles, bung or cork tight, and iu two weeks it will be good 
sound beer, and will keep a long time; and for persons of a 
weak habit of body, and especially females, 1 glass of this with 
their meals is far better thau tea or coffee, or all the ardent spir- 
its in the universe. If more malt is used, uot exceeding ^ a 
bushel, the beer, of course, would have more spirit, but this 
strength is sufficient for the use of families or invalids. 

9. Ale, Home-Brewed — How it is Made. — The follow« 
mg formula for the manufacture of a famous home-brewed 
ale of the English yeomanry, will convey a very clear idea 
of the components and mixture of ordinary ales. The mid- 
dle classes of the English people usually make their ale in 
i^aantities of two barrels, that is, seventy-two gallons. 

For this purpose a quarter of malt, (8 bus.) is obtained at the 
malt-liouse — or, if wished to be extra strong, nine bushels of 
m-ilt — are taken, with hops, 12 lbs.; yeast, 5 qts. 

The malt, being crushed or ground, is mixed with 72 gals, 
of water at the temperature of 160^, and covered up for 3 
hours, when 40 gallons ai'e drawn off, into which the hops are 
put, and left to infuse. Sixty gallons of water at a temperature 
of 170^ are then added to the malt in the mash- tub, and weil 



64 DSL. chase's recipes. 

mixed, and after Btanding 3 hours, sixty gailoua are drawn of? 
The wort from these two mashes is boiled with the hops for 3 
hours, and after being cooled down to 65 ^ , is strained thro^igh 
a flannel bag into a fermenting tub, where it is mixed with tlie 
yeast and left to work for 24 or 30 hours. It is then run into 
barrels to cleanse, a few gallons being reserved for filling up the 
casks as the yeast works over. 

Of course when the yeast is worked out it must be bunged 
If one-half a pint of this was taken each meal by men, and 
half that amount by females, and no other spirits, tea noi 
coffee, during the day, I hesitate not in saying that I firmly 
believe it would conduce to health. I know that this, which 
a man makes himself, or some of the wines mentioned in 
this work, home-made, are all that any person ought to allow 
themselves to use in these days when dollars and cents are 
the governing influences of all who deal in such articles. 

10. Porter, Ale, or Wine, to Prevent Flatness in 
Parts of Bottles for the Invalid. — Sick persons who 
are recommended to use ale, porter, or wine, and can only 
take a small glass at a time, nearly always find the last of 
the bottle flat or stale. 

To prevent this put in the cork firmly, and turn the cork-<^nd 
downwards, in a large tumbler or other vessel nearly filled with 
water. 

This plan prevents communication with the external air. 

11. Cream Nectar, Imperial. — First, take water 1 gal.; loaf 
sugar 8 lbs., tartaric ac\d 8 oz. ; gum arable 1 oz. ; put into a 
suitable kettle and place on the fire. 

Second, take flour 4 tea-spoons; the whites of4 eggs, well 
beaten together, with the flour, and add water i pt. ; when the 
^rst is blood warm put in the second, and boil 3 minutes, and it 
is done. 

Directions : Three table-spoons of the syrup to a glass 
half or two-thirds full of water, and add one- third tea-spooD 
of super- carbonate of soda, made fine; stir well, and drink 
at your leisure. 

Jg^*ln getting up any of the soda drinks which are 
spoken of, it will be found preferable to put about eight 
ounces of super-carbonate, often called carbonate of Foda, 
into one pint of water in a bottle, and shake when you 
wish t? make a glass of soda, and pour of this into the ghs9 
until it foams well, instead of using the dry soda ai» direet<&d 



13 Gi:N(iEii Poi^-- Water 5} gals. ; ginger root, bruised, i lb ; 
tertanc acid i oz. ; white sugar 2^ lbs. ; whites of 8 eggs well 
beaten ; lemon oil 1 tea-spoon ; yeast 1 gill. * 

Boil the root for thirty minutes in one gallon of the 
«7ater, strain off, and put the oil in while hot; mix. Make 
over night, and in tii<3 morning skim and bottle, keeping out 
eediments. 

Ip. Spanish <CTiN<rEKETTE.~-To each giil.of water put 1 lb. hf 
wlute sugar ; ^ oz. b€st bruised ginger root; i oz. of cre^im of 
taitar, and 2 lemons sliced. 

Directions: In maldng 5 gals, boil the ginger and lemons 10 
minutes in 2 gals, of the water; the sugar and cream of tartar 
to be dissolved in tiie cold water, and mix all, and add i pint of 
good yeast ; let it ferment over night, sli'ain and bottle in th^ 
morning. 

This k a valuable recipe for a cooling and refreshing be v- 
*^rage; compouiided of ingredients highly calculated to 
a^^ist the st^^mach, and is recommended to j)ersons suffering 
with Dyspepsia or Sick Headache. It Is much used in Euro- 
{)ean countries, and persons having once tested its virtues 
will constantly use it as a commoa drink. And for saloons, 
or groceries, no temperance beverage will set it aside. 

14. SlIAM-CfiAMPAaNE— A PURELY TEMPERANCE DrINE.— 

lartaric acid 1 oz. ; one good sized lemon : ginger root 1 oz. : 
wjute sugar 1-^ lbs. ; water 2^ gals. ; yeast i gill. 

bhce the lemon, and bruise the ginger, mix all, except the 
yeast boil the water and pour it upon them and let stand until 
cooled to blood heat ; then add the yeast and let it stand in the 
sun through the day ; at ni.^ht, bottle, tieing the corks, aad in 3 
d&ys it Will be fit to me.^M's, Belcher, 

Be sure and not drink over three or four bottles at om 
time. 

YEASTS—Hop Yeast.— Hops 1 oz. ; water 8 pts. ; fiour 1 
tea-cup ; brown sugar 1 table-spoon ; sail 1 tea-spoon; bre weirs' 
or bakers' yeast 1 gill. 

^ Boil the hops twenty minutes in the water, straia into a 

jar, and stir in the flour, sugar, and salt, and when a little 

cool add the yeast, and after four or five hours cover up. and 

stand in a cool place or on the ice for use. 

^ The above makes a good family yeast, but the following 

IS th«r regular bakers' yeast, as they always keep the ^ ait oa 

hand. 

:i—DR, chass'h recipes. 



(5^ BR. CHASJS'S RECIPEa. 

2. Bakers' Yeast. — Hops 2 oz. ; water 1 gal. ; wheat floai i 

lb. ; malt floui* 1 pt. ; stock yeast i pt. 

Boil the hops for thirty minutes in the water, strain, and 
let cool until you can well bear jour hand m it; then stii 
in the fiour and yeast; keep in a warm place until the fer- 
Dientation is well under way, and then let it work in a cooler 
place six to eight hours, when it should be put in pint hot- 
ties about half full, and closely corked, and tied down. T>y 
keeping this in a very cool cellar, or ice-house, it will keep 
for months, fit for use. But as it is often troublesome to 
obtain yeast, to start with, I give you the " Distillers' Jug 
Yeast/' starting without yeast. 

3. Jug-Yeast, Without Yeast to Start With. — ^Hops i 
lb. ; water 1 gal. ; fine malt flour i pt. ; brown sugar i lb. 

Boil the hops in the water until quite strong, strain, and 
stir in the malt flour ; sind strain again through a coarse cloth, 
and boil again for ten m?nutes ; when lukewarm, stir in the 
sugar, and place in a jug, keeping it at the same tempera- 
ture until it works over ; then cork tight, and keep in a cold 
tilace. 

4. Yeast Cake. — Good sized potatoes 1 doz. ; hops 1 large 
baodful ; yeast {- pt. ; corn meal sufficient quantity. 

Boil the potatoes, after peeling, .and rub them througli a 
cullender ; boil the hops in two quarts of water, and strain 
into the potatoes; then scald sufficient Indian meal to make 
them the consistence of emptyings, and stir in the yeast and 
let rise ; then, with unscalded meal, thicken so as to roll 
out and cut into cakes, drying quickly, at first, to prevent 
souring. They keep better, and soak up quicker, than if 
made with flour. 

ICE CHEA^I. — Fresh cream i gal. ; rich milk i gal. ; white 
sugar 1 lb. ; some do use as much as 2 lbs. of srgar to the gal- 
lon, yet it leaves an unpleasant astringency in tLe throat after 
eating the cream, but please yourselves. 

Dissolve the sugar in the mixture, flavor with extract to suit 
your taste, or take the peel from a fresh lemon Knd steep one- 
ikilf of it in as little water as you can, and add this— it makes 
tiie lemon flavor better than the extract — and no flavor wUl eo 
universally please as the lemon ; keep the saaae f^ror>ortion for 
any amount desired. The juice of strawberries or raspberrio* 
gives a beautiful color and flavor to ice creams; ci Jsl>out ^ (M 



(BALOuX DEPARTMENT. (JV 

of essence or extracts to a gaHon, or to suit the taste. HttV^i 
four ice well broken ; 1 qt. salt to a bucket of ice. 

About half an hours' constant stirring and occasional 
ti»^raping down and beating together, will freeze it. The 
old-fashioned freezer which turns in a tub of ice, makes 
smoother and nicer ice-cream than all the patent freezers I 
have seen ; and the plan of using the genuine cream and 
milk gives sufficient profit ; but I will give you the best sub- 
fititutes there are, in the following recipe, but the ^5 you 
eat of either the better will it be for health. 

2. Ice Cream, Very CnEAP.—Milk 6 qts. ; Oswego com 
eiarch i lb. 

First dissolve the starch in one quart of the milk, tliea 
mix all together and just simmer a little, (not to boil.) 
Sweeten and flavor to suit your taste, as above ; or — 
3. Irish moss 1^ oz. ; milk 1 gal. 

First soak the moss in a little cold water for an hour, and 
rinse well to clear it of sand and a certain peculiar taste ; then 
Bteep it for an hour in the milk just at the boiling point, but not 
to boil ; it imparts a rich color and llavor without eggs or cream. 
The moss may be steeped twice. 

It is the Chicago plan. I have eaten it and know it to 
be very nice. A few minutes rubbing, at the end of freez- 
ing, with the spatula, against the side of the freezer, gives 
ice-cream a smoothness not otherwise obtained. 

WIjSTES. — Currant, Cherry, and other Berry 
TViNES.— The juice of either of the above fruits can be 
used alone, or in combinations to make a variety of flavors, 
or suit persons who have some, and not the other kinds of 
fruit. 

"Express all the juice you can, then take an equal amount 0! 
bQilmg water and pour on the pressed fruit, let stand 2 hours, 
squeeze out as much as there is of juice, and mix, then add 4 lbs. 
01 brown sugar to each gallon of the mixture; let st^nd until 
worked, or 3 or 4 weeks, without a bung in the kei, or barrel, 
fiimply puttmg a piece of gauze over the bung hole to keep out 
ties ; when it is done working, bung it up. 

A cool cellar, of course, is the best place for keeping 
wines, as they must be kept where they will not freeze. 
Some persons use only one-fourth juice, in making fruU 
^BeSj and three-fourths water, but you will bear ia miud 



68 DR. chase's recipes. 

that the wine will be good or bad, just in proportion to tba 
water and sugar used. If care is used when you express 
the juice, to prevent the pulp or seeds from entering or re- 
maining in the juice, no other straining or racking will be 
needed. Most persons also recommend putting in brandy, 
but if any spirit is used at all, let it be pure alcohol, from ono 
gill to one-half pint only per gallon, but the strength of 
juice I recommend, and the amount of sugar, remove all 
heccssity for any addition of spirit whatever. Bear inmird 
that all fruit of which you are to make wine ought to 1>q 
perfectly ripe, and then make it as soon as possible there- 
after, not letting the juice ferment before the addition of 
the sugar. If bottled, always lay them on the side. 

J. Rhubarb, ok English Patent Wine. — An agree- 
able and healthful wine is made from tlie expressed juice 
of the garden rhubarb. 

To each gal. of juice, add 1 gal. of soft water in wiiich 7 
lbs. of Ijrown sugar has been dissolved ; fill a keg or a barrel 
with this proportion, leaving the bung out, and keep it filled 
with sweetened water as it works over until clear ; then bun^ 
down or bottle as you desire. 

These stalks will furnish about three-fourths their weight 
in juice, or from sixteen hundred to two thousand gallona 
of wine to each acre of well cultivated plants. Fill the bar- 
rels and let them stand until spring, and bottle, as any wine 
will be better in glass or stone 

3. .'^ome persons give Mr. Cahoon, of Kenosha, Wis., 
credit for originating pie-plant wine, but that is a mistake ; 
it has long been made in England, and has even been pa- 
tented in that country. They first made it by the following 
directions, which also makes a very nice article » but more 
applicable for present use than for keeping. 

For every 4 lbs. of the stalks cut fine, pour on 1 ^1 of boil- 
ing w^ater, adding 4 lbs. brown sugar ; let stand covered 24 hours, 
having also added a little cinnamon, allspice, cloves and nul- 
meg, bruised, as may be desired for flavoring ; then stram and 
let work a few" days, and bottle. 

4. Tomato Wine. — Express the juice from clean, ripe toma- 
l-oes, and to each gallon of it, (without any w^ater,) put brown 
ftugar 4 lbs. 

Put in t}i8 sugar immediately, or before ferment? uo» 



SALOON DEPARTMKNT. ()9 

begins— thia ought to be done in making any fruit wine. 
Something of the character of a cheese press, hoop and 
cloth, is the best plan to squeeze out the juice of tomatoes 
or other fruits. L^t the wine stand in a keg or barrel for 
two or three months; then draw off into bottles, carefully 
avoiding the sediment. It makes a most dehghtful wine, 
having all the beauties of flavor belonging to the tomato, 
and I have no doubt all its medicinal properties also, either 
as a tonic in disease, or as a beverage for those who are in 
the habit of using intoxicating beverages, and if such per- 
sons would have the good sense to make some wine of this 
kind, and use it instead of rot-gut whisky, there would not 
be one-hundredth part of the "snakes in the boot" that now 
curse our land. ^ It must be tasted to be appreciated. I 
have it now, which is three years old, worth more than much 
pretended wine which is sold for three or four shillin^^s a 
pint. "" 

^ 5. Tomato Cultivation, for Early and Late.— The Work- 
mg Farmer says of the tomato plant, " that it bears 80 per 
cent of Its fruit within 18 inches of thegi'ound, w^hile more tlian 
half the plant is above that part. When the branches are cut 
they do not bleed, and they may therefore be shortened imme- 
diately above the large, or early-setting fruit. 

'^ The removal of the small fruit on the ends of the 
branches is no loss, for the lower fruit will swell to an un- 
natural size by trimming, and both a greater weight and 
measure of fruit will be the consequence, besides obtaining 
a large portion five to fifteen days earlier. The trimming 
should be done so as to have a few leaves beyond the fruit"^ 
to insure perfect ripening. The importance of early manur- 
ing is too evident to need comment. The burying of the 
removed leaves immediately around the plant is a good prac- 
tice, both by insi^ing full disturbance of the soil, and by 
the presenting of a fertilizer progressed precisely to the 
point of fruit making. The portions buried decay rapidly, 
and are^ rapidly assimilated.'' If wanted very early and 
large, trim off all except two or three upon each plant. 

6. To ripen late tomatoes, pull the plants having green toma- 
toes on them, before the commencement oi frosts, and hang 
them in a well ventilated cellar. 
^ The fruit will continue to ripen until early winter, espe- 
cially if the cellar \» cool and damp. 



79 DR. cease's recipes. 

7. The Tomoto as Food. — Dr. Bennett, a professor of 
some celebrity, considers the tomato an invaluable article of 
diet, and ascribes to it various important medical properties. 

First — that the tomato is one of the most powerful apcneiiis 
for the liver and other organs; where culomel is inuicalcd, it la 
probably one of the most ellective and least hai'mful remedial 
agents known to the profession. Second — that a cliemical ex- 
tract will be obtained from it that will supercede the use of calo- 
mel in the cure of disease. TJdrd — that he has successfully 
treated Biarrhcea wilh this ai-ticle alone. Fourth — that wheD 
used as an article of diet, it is an almost sovereign reme<ly for 
Dy^pepHui and indigestion. Fifth — that it should be constantly 
used for daily food, either cookod or raw, or in the form of catch- 
up ; it is the most healthy article now in use. 

Knowing personally the value of the tomato in disease, 
for food and wine, I freely give all the information regard- 
ing it which I can, that others may make as free use of i1 
as health and economy demand, consequently, I give you 
the next item, which I have learned just as the type were 
being set, upon this subject in 1860. 

8. To:matof,s as Food for Cattle. — Mr Davis, i\iQ 
editor of the '' Michigan State News/' Ann Arbor, Mich., 
says, '^ that he has fed his cow, this season, at least teo 
bushels of tomatoes.^' 

His plan is to mix a little bran with them, (say 3 qts. to 8 
half bushel of tomatoes, when fed ;) they cause an excellent tlow 
of rich and delicious milk. 

lie did not think of it until after the frosts, when ob 
serving them going to waste, he thought to see if she would 
eat them, which she did freely, from the commencement. I 
have also known pigs to eat tliem, but this is not common 
In 18G2, I found my cow to eat them as freely as spoken of 
by Mr. Davis. 

9. Wink, from White Currants. — Ripe, wiiite currants, 
any quantity; squeeze out the juice, and put onv/atcr to get out 
aa much more as there is of the juice, and mix the two, and to 
eacli gallon put o^ lbs. of sugar; let it work without boiling oi 
Bkinnning for 2 or Z months, then rack otf and bottle. 

The white currant has less acidity than the red, and does 
not require as much sugar. 1 have never tasted currant 
wine equal to this. 

10. Ginger Wink ^Alcohol of 98 per cent, 1 (luart best ginge? 



^AL0Ol« DEPARTMKNT. 71 

root, bruised, 1 oz. ; cayenne 5 grs. ; tartaric acid 1 dr. ; iCt stand 
1 week and filter, or draw off by faucet above the sediment. 
Now add 1 gal. of water in whicli 1 lb. of crushed sugar haa 
been boiled. Mix when cold. To make the color, boil | oz. of 
cochineal, f oz. of cream of tartar, | oz. of saleratus, and i oz. 
of alum in 1 pt. of water until you get a bright red color, and 
aze a proper amount of this to bring the wme to the desired 
color. 

This wine is suitable for nearly all the purposes for which 
any wine is used, and a gallon of it will not cost more thaa 
a pint of many wines sold throughout the country for med- 
ioiual purposes, represented to bo imported from Europe. 
Let a man, suffering with a bad cold, drink about half a 
pint of this wine hot, on going to bed, soaking his feet at 
the same time in hot water fifteen or twenty minutes, and 
covering up warm and sweating it out until morning, then 
washing off his whole body with cool or cold water, by 
means of a wet towel, and rubbing briskly with a coarse dry 
towel for four or five minutes, will not be able to find his 
cold or any bad effects of it in one case out of a hundred. 
Ladies or children would take less in proportion to age and 
strength. Females in a weakly condition, with little or no 
appetite, and spare in flesh, from food not properly digest- 
ing, but not yet ripened into actual in d if /est fan ^ will find 
almost entire relief by taking half a wine-glass of this wine 
twenty minutes before meals, and following it up a month 
or two, according to their improved condition. For family 
use U Is just as good without color, as with it. 

IL Blackberry Wink. — Mash the berries, and pour 1 qt. of 
boiling water to each gal. ; let tlie mixture stand 24 hours, stir- 
ring occasionally ; then strain and measure into a keg, adding 3 
lbs. of sugar, and good rye whisky 1 pt., or best alcohol i pt. to 
each gal. 

Cork tight, and let it stand until the following October, 
and you will have wine fit for use, without further straining 
or boiling, that will make lips smack as thev never smacked 
under its influence before. 

I feel assured that where this fruit is plenty, that this 
wine should take the place of all others, as it is invaluablo 
in sickness as a tonic, and nothing is better for bowel dis- 
ease. I therefore give the recipe for making it, and having 
tried it myself, I speak advisedly on the subject. 



72 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES. 

The Dollar Times^ Cincinnati, 0., first published this 
rocipc, not using any spirits, but I find that it will often 
Bour without it. 

12. Lawtox Blackberry — Its Cultivation." An 
editor at Coldwater, Mich., says of this fruit, ^' that where 
it is best known it is one of the most popular suiall fruits 
that has ever been cultivated. It has been known to pro- 
duce over one thousand full-grown ripe berries in one season 
on a single stalk ; the average size of fruit being from three- 
fourths to one and a half inches in diameter; quality excel- 
lent, very juicy, seeds very small, and few in number. Five 
quarts of berries will make one gallon of juice, wliich, 
mix^d with two gallons of water and nine pounds of refined 
sugar, will make three gallons of wine, equal in quality to 
tiie best grape wine. Professor Mapes and many others, 
who have tested the qualities of the same as a wine-fruit, 
speak dI it in terms of the highest praise. 

13. Po:?i Wine.— Fully ripe wild grapes 2 bu. ; beet alcoboi 
3 gals. ; s-?c-r 25 ibs. ; water Vo till a barrel. 

Mash th^ grapes without breaking the seed; then put 
them into i barrel with the sugar and alcohol, and fill up 
with rain water, and let it lie a few weeks in the sim; or if 
tlie weather hac> become cold, in a warm place ; tlieu in the 
cellar until spring ; then rack off and bottle, or place in 
perfectly clean kegs or barrels, and you have a better article 
than nine-tenths of what is represented as imported Port. 

14. Cider Wine. — Prof Ilorsford, a celebrated chemist, 
communicated the following recipe to the Horticultural 
Society of Massachusetts, and recommends it for general 
trial : 

"Let the new cider from sour apples, (ripe, sound frnU ] re- 
ferred,) ferment from 1 to 3 v/ecks, as the weatlier is wai-m or 
cool. When it has attained to a lively fermentation, add tot-ach 
gallon, according to its acidity, from ^ a lb. to 2 lbs. of ^^hile 
crushed sugar, and let the whole ferment until it possesses pre- 
cisely the caste which it is desired siiould be permanent. In tJii^ 
condition pour out a quart of the cider and add for each enllou 
\ oz. of sulphite of lime, not sulphate. Stirtlie jiowdt^r and cider 
until intimately mixed, and return the emulsion to the ferment- 
ing liquid. Agitate briskly and thoroughly for a tew moments, 
and then let the cider f^ettre. Fermentation will cease at once 



SALOON DEPARTMENT. 7S 

Wnen afler a few days, the cider has become clear, draw off 
carefully, to avoid the sediment, and bottle. If loosely corked^ 
v\'hich is better, it will become a sparkling cider wine, and may 
Oe ke|)t indefinitely long. 

1'his ]\as been tried with varied success ; those who do 
aot think it too much to follow the directions, obtain a good 
article, but others, supposing it to do just as well without 
Rugar, or dniwing off, or bottling, have found but little sat- 
isfaction -they have no reason to expect any ; and yet they 
might bo well satisfied to obtain a good wine from the or 
ehard, even with all the above requisitions. 

15. Grape Winb.— " Ripe, freshly picked, and selected, tame 
grapes, 20 lbs. ; put them into a stone jar and pour over them 6 
qts. of boiling soft w^ater ; w^hen sutiiciently cool to allow it, you 
will squeeze Them thoroughly wuth the hand ; after which allow 
tliem to stand 3 days on the pomace with a cloth thrown over 
the jar, then squeeze out the juice and add 10 lbs. of nice crnshed 
sugar, and let it remain a week longer in the jar ; then take off 
the scum, strain and bottle, leaving a vent, until done ferment- 
ing, when strain again and i)ottle tight, and lay the bottles on 
the side in a cool place." 

This wine is the same as used by the Kcv. Orrin Whit- 
more, of Saline, Mich., for sacramental purposes. I have 
lasted it myself, and would prefer it for medicinal uses to 
nine-tenths of the wines sold in this country. With age, it 
is nice. I am of the opinion that it might just as well re- 
main in the jar until it is desired to bottle, and thus save the 
trouble of the extra straining. For I have now wine, four 
years old in my cellar, made in Evansville, Ind., from tlie 
grape, which was made without the addition of any particle 
of matter whatever. Simply, the juice pressed out, hauled 
in from the vinery, put into very large casks in a cool cellar, 
not even racked off again under one year from the time of 
making. It tastes exactly like the grape itself; this, you 
wUi perceive, saves much trouble in racking, straining, etc 
I am told by other wine makers also, that if care is observed 
^hen the juice is pressed out to keep clear of the pomace, 
thai wine is better to stand without racking or strainingj 
and that nothing is found in the barrels, after the first year, 
save the crude tartar or wine-stone, as some call it, which al! 
grape wine deposites on the sides of the cask. These wines 
are every way appropriate for sacramental and mediciua) 



74 DR. CHABK's REOIPKft. 

purposes, and far more pure than can be purchased once m 
a hundred times, and if one makes their own, they have the 
satisfaction of knoicing that their ^vines are not made of 
what ii vulgarly, yet truly called, '* Rut-gut whisky" 

16. CoLOTiTNG FOK WiNES.— Wliite sugaf 1 lb. ; water t giH : 
put into an iron ketlle, let boil, and burn to a red black, ajid thick; 
remove from the fire and add a little hot water to keep it fron? 
hardening as it cools ; then bottle for use. 

Any of the foregoing wines can be colored with this, as 
desired, but for family use I never use any color. 

17. Stomach Bittkhs, Equal to Hostkttehs', for On^- 
FOUKTU its Cost, and Schiedam Schnapps ExporED,— -Euro- 
pean Gentian root 1^ oz. ; orange peel 2^ oz. ; cinivamon J oz. ; 
anise seed i oz. ; coriander seed i oz. ; cardamcn oeed i oz. ; 
ungiound Peruvian bark i oz. ; gum kino J oz. ; broisa all these 
articles, and put them into the best alcohol 1 jX. ; let it stand a 
week and pour off the clear tincture ; then bo'J U'C dregs a few 
minutes in 1 qt of water, strain, and pres? out i\\ the strength ; 
now dissolve loaf sugar 1 lb. in the hot liquid, adding o qts. cold 
water, and mix with the spirit tincture iLti poured off, or you 
can add these, and let it stand on the drcgi Vi preferred. 

18. NOTE.— Schiedam Schnapps, Falsely so Called— It 
is generally known that in Schiedam^ Holland, they make the 
best quality of Gin, calling it *' SchUdam Schnapps;" conse- 
quently it might be expected that ur.principled men would un- 
dertake its imitation; but hardly cc dd it have been expected 
that so base an imitation would sUJt into existence under the 
guidance of a man, who, at least, calls himself honorable. 

'' Take gentian root, J lb. ; oraLt,e peel, J lb. ; puds, i lb ; (bin 
if this last cannot be obtained, poma aurantior, unripe oranges,) 
or agai'ic, J lb. ; best galangal, J \b. ; centaury, J lb. ;— cost $1 ,20. 
Put pure spirit, 10 gals., upon tbem and let them stand 2 weeks; 
stir it every day, and at the end of that time put 3 gals, of this 
to one bairel of good whisky ; then bottle and label ; and here 
follows the label : 

AROMATIC SCHIEDAM SCHNAPPS, A Superlattvt 
Tonic, Diuuetic, ANTi-DysPEP-nc, and lN\aGoiiATTNG Con- 
oiAL. — This Medical Be\^:uage is manufactured at Schiedam, 
in Holland, and is warranted tree from every injurious property 
4nd ingredient, and of the best possilde quality. 

Its extraordinary medicinal properties in Gravel, Gout, Chronic 
Rheumatism, Incipient Dropsy, Flatulence, Colic Pains of the 
Stomach or Bowels, whether in adults or infants. In all ordi- 
nary cases oj' obstruction in the Kidneys, Bladder and Urinary 
Organs, in Dyspepsia, whether Acute or Chronic, in general 
Debility, sluggish Circulation of the Blood, Inadequate Assimi- 



jdF.DICAL DEPARTMENT. 75 

-Ation of Food, and Exhausted Vital Energy, are acknowledged 
Dy the whole IMedical Faculty, and attested in their highest 
written authorities." 

I purchased the foregoing recipe of an extensive dealer in 
Evansville, lm\.; he put up the stuff in quart bottles, and labeled 
it as 1 have shown you ; his label was got up in splendid style, 
bronzed letters, and sent out to the world as pure '^ Schiedam 
ISchnapps^'' at $1 per bottled 

I have given you the whole thing, that tlie thousands into 
whose hands this book may fall, shall know what contidence, or 
that no confidence whatever, can be placed in the " Advertised 
Nostrums" of the day, but that the only security we have is to 
mak^ our own, or go to those whom we knaw to be scientific. 
Obtain tlteir prescription and follow their counsel. Every person 
knows that real Holland Gin possesses diuretic and other valu- 
able properties ; and who would not suppose he was getting a 
genuine article from this Flaming, Bronze-crested Label, "])ointinff 
out especially all the complaints that Schiedma-lovers are wont w 
complain off And yet not one drop of gm to a barrel of it. 
And my excuse for this exposure is that tliey and all who may 
have an occasion to use such articles, may know that *' good 
whisky" ought to be afforded at less than $4 per gallon, even if 
$1,20 worth of bitter tonics are put into 3^ barrels of the pre- 
dous stuff. 

Then take our advice where gin or other liquor is needed, aa 
mentioned in the first recipe in the Medical Department. 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 

I would give an introductory word of Caution in this 
l>epartinent. 

Whenever you buy an article of medicine which is not 
regularly labeled by the Druggist, have him, in all cases, 
write the name upon it. In this way you will not only save 
monei/, but perhaps life. Arsenic, phosph'^rus, laudanum, 
acids, &c., should always be put where ch idren cannot get 
at them. And always purchase thebest quality of drugs to 
insure success. 

ALCOHOL — In Medicines, Preferable to Biundy, 
Rum, or Gin, of the Present Day. -There is no one 
thing doing so much to bolster up the tx)ttering yet strong 
tower of Intemperance, as the old Fogy Physicians, who 
are constantly prescribing these articles to their patients, 



re DR. chase's 11£G1PE8, 

and one-half of tlie reason for it is to cover the faults o^ 
their own constant use of these beverages. This unneces- 
sary call for these articles thus used as a madicine, keeps up 
a large demand ; and when we take into consideration the 
almost impossibility of obtaining a genuine article, ^ the sin 
of prescribing them becomes so much the greater, when it 
is also known by all really scientific men that with alcohol 
(which is pure) and the native fruit wines, cider, and cidei 
wines, (which every one can make for themselves, and can 
thus know their purity,) that all the indications desired to 
be fulfilled in curing disease can be accomplished without 
their use. 

Then, when it is deemed advisable to use spirits to preserve 
any bitters or syrups from souring, instead of 1 qt. of brandy, 
rum or gin, use the best alcohol i pt., with about 2 or 8 ozs. of 
cruslied sugar for this amount, increasing or lessening according 
to the amount desired in these proportions. If a diuretic effect 
is desired, wiiich is calculated to arise wiiere gin is prescribed, 
put 1 dr. of oil of juniper into tiie acohol before reducing with 
tlie water ; or if the preparation admits of it you may put in 
from 1 to 2 ozs. of juniper berries instead of the oil. If tlie as- 
tringeni effect is desired, as from brandy, use, say* i oz. of gum 
kino or catechu, either, or a half of each may be us*pd. If the 
sweating or opening properties are required, as indicated by the 
prescription of rum, swx^eten with molasses in place of the su- 
gar, and use 1 dr. of oil of carraway, or 1 to 2 ozs. of the seed 
for the above amount, as the.iunipcr berries for gin. 

If the strength of wine on.y is desired, use 1 qt. of the ginger 
wine, or if that flavor is not fancied, use any other of ^he wines 
as preferred by the ixxtient. 

Bui no one should use any of the descriptions of aWiiol as 9 
constant beverage, even in medicine, unless advised to do so by 
a i^hysician wlio is not himself a taper. 

If families will follow the directions above given, and 
use proper care in making some of the various fruit wines 
as given in this book for medical use, preparing ruder, &c., 
which is often a-ed in prescriptions, they would seldom, if 
ever, be obliged to call for the pretended pure brandies, 
rums, gins, <fec., of commerce, and intemperance would dio 
a natural death for want of support. 

And you will please allow me here to correct a common 
error, with regard to the presence of alcohol in wines. It 
is generally supposed that wine made from fruit, without 
putting some kind of spirits into it, does not contain any 



MEDICAL DEPAttTMEKT. 77 

tlcohoi ; but a greater mistake does not exist in the world. 
Any fruit, the juice of which will not pass into the vinous 
fermentation by which alcohol is produced, will not make 
wine at all ; distillation will produce brandy or alcohol from 
any of these fermented liquors. 

There is no wine, of any note, containing less than 10 parti 
of alcohol to 100 parts of the w^ine ; and from that amount up 
t*) 2t5^ parts; currant 20| ; gooseberry 11^; cider from 5 to 9 
l.arts ; porter 4| ; even small beer 1^ parts or qts. to 100 qts.. 

So it will be seen that every quart of fruit wine not made 
fur medicine, or sacramental purposes, helps to build up the 
Cttuse (intemperance) which we all so much desiie not to 
eacourage. And for those who take any kind of spirits for 
t'^e sake of the spirit, let me give you the following : 

2. " Spiritual Facts. — That whis-key is the hej/ by 
^ liuh many gain entrance into our prisons and almshouses. 

3. That hrandy hraruh the noses of all those who can- 
wi govern their appetites. 

4. That punch is the cause of many i^nfriendly punche.^. 

5. That ale causes many alUnys^ while beer hrimjs to the 

6. That v:me causes many to take a wmding way honie. 

7. That cAam-pagne is the source of many real pains, 

8. That gin dings have " slewed'^ more than slings o/ 

VGUj: MEDICINES.— Dr. Krieder's Pills.— Quinine 20 
giis. ; Dover^s powders 10 grs. ; sub-carbonate of iron 10 grs. ; mix 
with mucilage of gum arabic and form into 20 pills. Dose- 
Two, each hour, commencing 5 hours before the chill should set 
m. Then take one night and morning, until all are taken. 

I cured myself of Ague with this pill after having it hang 
on to me for three years with all the common remedies of 
the day, five weeks being the longest I could keep it off, 
until I obtained the above pill. This was before I had 
studied medicine. I have cured many others with it also, 
never having to repeat the dose only in one case. 

In attacks of Ague, it is best to take an active cathartic 
immediately after the first * fit,^ unless the bowels are lax, 
which is not generally the case, and by the time the cathar- 
tic has worked off well, you will be prepared to go ahead 
with the * cure ' ae soon as you know its periodical return 



78 DR. CHASERS RECIPSS. 

2. For very young cJiUdren, nothing is better tJian 5 or 6 grb. 
of qumine in a 2 oz. vial with 1 table-spoon of white sugar; 
then till with water. Dose — a tea spoon given as above, as t^ 
time. A thick solution of licorice, however, hides the taste of 
the quinine quite effectually. 

3. Ague Bitters.— Quinine 40 grs. ; capsicum 20 grs. ; clovea 
i oz. ; cream of tartar 1 oz. ; whisky 1 pt. ; Mix. Dose — 1 to 3 
table-spoons every 2 hours, beginning 8 hours before the chili 
comes on, and 3 times daily for several days. Or, if preferred 
without spirits, take the following : 

4. Ague Powder. — Quinine 10 grs. ; capsicum 4 gi's, ; mix 
and divide into 3 powders. Directions — Take one 4 hours be- 
fore the chill, one 2 hours, and the third 1 hour before the chill 
should commence, and it will very seldom commence again. Or 

5. x\gue Mixture without Quinine. — Mr^. Wads- 
worth, a few miles south of this city, has been using the fol- 
lowing Ague mixture over twenty years, curing, she says, 
more than forty cases, without a failure. She takes — 

^[andrake root, fresh dug, and pounds it ; then sqeezes out 
liie juice, to obtain 1^ table-spoons, with which she mixes the 
same quantity of molasses, is dividing into 3 equal doses of 1 ta- 
l)le-spoon each, to be given 2 hours apart, commencing so as to 
take all an hour before the chill. 

It sickens and vomits some, but she says, it will scarcely 
ever need repeating. Then steep dog-wood bark, (somo 
call it box- wood,) make it strong, and continue to drink it 
freely for a week or two, at least. 

6. Ague Cure, by a Clairvoyant. — There is no doubt 
in my mind but what there is much virtue in the following 
clairvoyant prescription, for I have knowledge of the value 
of one of the roots. See Cliolic remedy : 

Blue vervain, leaf and top, 1 lb. ; bone-set J lb. ; best rye 
whisky 1 gal. 

The dose was not gi\en, but most persons would take a 
wine glass five or six times daily. 

7. Ague Cured for a Penny. — It has been discovered 
that nitric acid is of great value in the treatment of Tnter- 
mittent Fever, or Ague. A physician administered the airti- 
cle in twenty-three cases of such fever, and it was succes&fuJ 
in all but one, in interrupting the paroxysms, and there oo- 
curred no relapse. 



MEBiCAL DEPAETMENr. 79 

In the majority of cases, 5 or 6 drops of the strong acid, g:iven 
m a little gum mucilage, every 2 hours, until 60 drops had beea 
fetken, were found sufficient to break the fever, and restore th.o 
patient to health. The foregoing confirms the following : 

8. Ague Anodyne. — Muriatic acid and laudanum, of each { 
oz. ; quinine 40 grs. ; brandy 4 ozs. Take 1 tea-spoon 9, 6, and ? 
hours before the chill, until broken; then at 7, 14, and 21 dayr^ 
after, take 3 doses, and no relapse will be lilvcly to occur. 

I am well satisfied that any preparation of opium, as lau- 
danum, morphine, &c., which effect the nerves, are valuable 
in ague medicine, from its intimate connection with, if not 
entirely confined to, the nervous system; hence the advan- 
tage of th« first Ague pill, the opium being in the Dover's 
powder. 

I have given this largo number of preparations, and fol- 
low with one or two more, from the fact that almost every 
physician will hav<e a peculiar prescription of his own, and 
are generally free to contribute their mite for the benefit of 
the world ; and as I have seen about as much of it as mo.st 
book-makers, I have come in for a large share. The nature 
of the articles recommended are such also as to justify their 
insertion in this work. 

9. Febrifuge Wine. — Quinine 25 grs.; water 1 pt.; sul- 
phuric acid 15 drops ; epsom salts 2 oz. ; brandy 1 gill ; loaf su- 
gar 2 ozs. ; color with tincture of red sanders. Dose. — a w^ine- 
glass 3 times per day. 

This is highly recommended by a regular practicing pby- 
eician, in one of the ague holes (Saginaw) of the west. It, 
of course, can be taken without any previous preparation of 
the systom. 

10. Tc7fic Wine Tincture. — A positive cure for Ague with- 
out q^TirJue. Peruvian bark 2 ozs. ; wild cherry tree bark 1 oz ; 
cinnamon 1 dr. ; capsicum 1 tea-spoon ; sulphur 1 oz. ; port 
wine 2 qts. Let stand a week, shaking occasionally. All the 
articles are to be pulverized. Dose — A wine-glass every 2 or 
8 hours through the day until broken, then 2 or 3 times per daj 
until all is used. 

Always buy your Peruvian bark, and pulverize it your- 
•elf, as most of the pulverized article is greatly adulterated. 
This is the reason why more cures are not performed by it 
1 11. Soot Coffee — Has cured many cases of ague, after 
" everything else " had failed ; it is made as follows : 



Soot scraped from a cliimney, (tbat from stove pipes d^es noi 
do,) 1 table-spoou, steeped m water 1 pt., and settled with 1 egp 
beaten up in a little v.ater, as for otber coSee, ^isrith 8ur;ar and 
cream, 3 times daily with tlie meals, in place of other cofce. 

It has coma in very much to aid restoration in Typhoid 
Fever, bad cases of Jaundice, Dyspepsia, &c., &c. 

Many persons will stick up their noses at these ^' Old 
Grandmother prescriptions/^ but I tell many ^' upstart Phy- 
sicians '^ that our grandmothers are carrying more informa- 
tion out of the world by their deaths, than will ever be po^^ 
sessed by this class of *' sniffers,*' and / really thank God, 
60 do thousands of others, that He has enabled me, in this 
work, to reclaim such an amount of it for the benefit of the 
world. 

12. Balmony J of a pint basin of loc^e leaves, fill with boilins 
water and steep ; drink the whole in the course of the day, and 
repeat 3 or 4 day?, or until w^ell. 

It has cured mjiuy cases of Ague, It is valuable in Jaun 
dice, and all diseases of the Liver ; and also for worms, by 
the mouth and by injection. It is also valuable in Dyspep- 
sia, Inflammatory, and Febrile diseases, generally. 

NIGHT Syv;EATS.— To Releive.— After Agues, Fe 
vers, &c., and in Consumption, many persons are troubled 
with ^' Night Sweats /' they are caused by weakness or gen- 
eral debility. For its relief : 

Take Ess. of tansy ■} oz. ; alcohol J c, ; water i oz. ; quinine 
15 grs. ; muriatic acid 80 drops; mi^. Dose — 1 tea-spoon, in a 
gillof cold sage tea. 

It should be taken two or three times during the day, and 
at bed time ; and the cold sage to?\ should be used freely aa 
a drink, also, until cured. It ^iJl even cure Ague, also, by 
repeating the above dose every hour, beginning twelve U 
fifteen hours before the chili. 

Fevers — General Imphoyed Treatment fob. Bil- 
ious, Typhoid, and Scarlet Fevers, Congestive- 
Chills, &G. Also Valuable in Diarrhea, Summer- 
Complaint, Cholera-Infantum, and all Forms oi 
Fever in Children. — The symptoms of Fever are gener- 
ally understood, yet I will give the characteristic features 
by which it will always be detected : cold chills, followed by 



MEDICAX. I>El'AilTMBNT. 8) 

a lot skin ,' a quickened pulse, with a weak and languid feel* 
ing of distress ; also, loss of appetite, thirst, restlessness, 
ficanty excretions ; in fact, every function of the body ia 
more or less deranged. Of course, then, that which will 
restore all the different machinery to healthy action, will 
restore health. That is what the following febrifuge has 
done in hundreds of cases — so attested to by ^' Old Doctor 
Cone,'^ from whose work on ^^ Fevers and Febrile Diseases/' 
I first obtained the outlines of the treatment, and it gives 
me pleasure to acknowledge my indebtedness to him through 
fourteen years of neighborhood acquaintance, always finding 
him as willing to communicate, as qualified to practice, and 
daring, in breaking away from '^ Medical Society Rules,'' to 
accomplish good. 

Febrifuge for Fevers in General.— Carbonate of ammo 
tiia 2 drs. ; alum 1 dr. ; capsicum, foreign gentian, Colombo root, 
and Prussiate of iron, all pulverized, of each, i dr. ; mix, Iv put- 
ting into a bottle, adding cold water 4 ozs. Dose — One tea-spoon 
to a grown person, every 2 hours, in common cases of fever. It 
may be sweetened if preferred. Shake well each time before 
riving, and keep the bottle tightly corked. 

The philosophy of this treatment is, the carbonate of am- 
monia neutralizes the acidity of the stomach, and determines 
to, and relaxes the surface ; and with the capsicum is a hun- 
dred per cent more efficient. The alum constringes, soothes, 
md aids in relieving the irritated and engorged mucous mem- 
brane of the stomach, and finally operates as a gentle laxa- 
tive. The Colombo and gentian are gently astringent ana 
stimulating, but chiefly tonic, and the Prussiate of iron is 
tonic ; and in their combination are, (as experience will and 
has proved) the most efficient and safe Febrifuge, in all forma 
and grades of fever, yet known. We therefore wish to 
8f*te that, after twenty-five years' experience in the treat- 
Hi >nt of disease, we have not been able to obtain a know- 
ledge of any course of treatment that will begin to compare 
with that given above, for the certain, speedy, and effectual 
cure of all forms of fever ; and all that is requisite, is, to 
have sufficient confidence in the course of treatment recom- 
mended ; to use it from three to five, and in extreme cases, 
seven days, as directed, and that confidence will be inspired 
in all who use it, whether Physician (if unprejudiced) or 

-CO'>Y RIGHT SECURED. 



82 DA« chase's recuses. 

patient, or the heads of famiUes ; remember all processes ia 
nature require time for their accomplishment. 

After the patient has been twonty-four hours without 
fever, or if the patient be pale, blanched, with a cool but 
face and feeble pulse, at the commencement of fever, pre 
pare the following : 

2. Febrifuge Tea. — Take Virginia snake root and valerian 
root, of each 2 drs. ; boiling water 1 pt. Pour the boiling water 
on the roots and steep ^ an hour, and give a tea-spoon of the 
Febrifuge and a table-spoon of this Tea together, every 2 hours, 
and after he has been another 24 hours without fever, give it 
every 3 or 4 hours, until the patient has good appetite and diges- 
tion, then 3 times daily, just before meals, until the patient has 
gained considerable strength, when it may be entirely discon- 
tinued ; or he may continue the simple infusion to aid digestion. 

A strong tea of wild cherry bark makes the best substi- 
tute for the snake root tea, and especially if mercury has 
been previously used in the case, and If it has, it is best to 
continue the cherry bark tea until the patient is entirely re- 
eovered. 

A patient using this treatment, if bilious, may vomit bile 
a few times, or if there is conjestion of the stomach, he wil 
probably vomit occasionally for a few hours, but it will soon 
subside. It will not purge, except a patient be very bilious, 
in which case there will probably be two or three bilious dip 
charges ; but it gives so much tone to the action of tl i 
stomach and bowels as to secure regular operations : but if 
the bowels should not be moved in two or three days, give 
injections of warm water, or warm water with a little salt 
in it. 

Give the patient all the plain, wholesome diet, of any 
kind, he will take, espcially broiled ham, mush and rich 
milk, boiled rice, milk or dry toast, hot mealy potatoes, boil- 
ed or roasted, with good fresh butter, &c., &c. ; and good 
pure, cold water, or tea and coffee, seasoned to the taste, as 
drinks, and keep the person and bed clean, and room quiet 
and undisturbed by conversation, or any other noise, and see 
that it is well ventilated. 

If there should be extreme pain in the head when the 
fever is at the highest, or in the back or loius, and deririum 
at night, with intolerance of light and noise ; in such cases 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 88 

in addition to keeping the room cool, dark and quiet, and 
giving the febrifuge regularly, as above directed, take the 
following : 

3. Fever Lint^ient. — Sulphuric ether and aqua ammonia, o! 
encLi 1 oz ; muriate of ammonia i oz. ; mix, and shake the bot 
tie, and wet the scalp and all painful parts, every 2 or 3 hourg, 
mitil the pain abates. Keep tightly corked. 

After the application of the liniment, fold a nauslin cloth 
four or five thicknesses, dip it in cold water, and apply it 
to the head or any part afflicted with severe pain ; or to tho 

it of the stomach, if there be much vomiting ; and it may 

e renewed every three or four hours. 
Besides the above treatment, dip a towel in cold water, 
and rub the patient off briskly and thoroughly, and be care- 
ful to wipe perfectly dry, with a clean, hot and dry towel j 
this may be repeated every three or four hours, if the skin 
be very hot and dry ; but if the surface be pale, cool, moist, 
livid, or lead- colored, omit the general sponging ; but th^ 
face, neck and hands may be washed occasionally, but be 
Bure to wipe perfectly dry w^ith a clean, hot and dry towel. 
But if he be very pale and blanched, with a cool or cold 
surface, or have a white circle around his mouth and nose, 
or be covered with a cold, clammy perspiration, give the 
Febrifuge every hour, until the above symptoms disappear, 
giving the patient hot coffee or tea, pennyroyal, sage, balm, 
or mint tea, as hot as he can sup them, and as freely as pos- 
sible, and make hot applications to his person, and put a 
bottle of hot water to the soles of his feet ] and after this 
tendency to prostration is overcome, then give the Febrifuge 
once in two hours as before only. 

Children will use the medicine in all respects as directed 
for grown persons, giving to a child one year old a fourth of 
a tea-spoon, or fifteen drops ; if under a year old, a little less, 
^we have frequently arrested Cholera Infantum with the Feb- 
rifuge, in children under six months old, and in some in- 
stances under a month old,) and increase the dose in propor- 
tion to the age above a year old, giving half a tea-spoon to 
a child from three to six, and three-fourths of a tea-spoon 
from six to ten years, old and so on ; and be sure to offer 
children some food several times a day, the best of which ia 
broiled smoked ham, good stale wheat bread boiled in good 



84 DR. chase's REClFfiS 

rich milk, mush and milk, boiled rice, etc. ; but animal diet 
agrees best, and especially in cases of Summer Complaint, or 
Cholera Infantum, the diet had better be almost exclusivbly 
animal. It will be difficult to use the infusion of snake root 
with children that are too young to obey the mandate cf 
parents, and the Febrifuge may be made sweet, with white or 
loaf sugar, for young children, so as to cover its tasce aa 
much as possible, but older children will be benefited very 
much by the use of the infusion of snake root and valerian, 
and should take it as prescribed for adults, of course adapt 
ing the dose to the age of the patient. 

4. Note. — The above treatment, if pereevered ip for a short 
time, is effectual in arresting Diarrhea, Summer Complaint, Chol- 
era Infantum, and all forms of Fever in children. Give it every 
two hours, or if the patient be very feeble and corpse-like, give 
it every hour until there is reaction, and then giv^ it every two 
hours, as prescribed for fever in general, and you -will be satis- 
fied with the result after a short time. 

5. Typhoid Fever. — If the patient be Typhoid, that is, 
if his tongue be brown or black, and dry in the ftcntre, with 
glossy red edges ; if he have Diarrhea, with thin, watery, or 
muddy stools, and a tumid or swollen belly, he will probably 
have a rapid, or frequent, and small pulse, and be delirious 
and rest but little at night ; under these circumstances, give 
the Febrifuge in the Tea, No. 2, as for fevers in general, 
every two hours, and give, also, the following : 

6. Febrifuge Balsam. — Gum camphor 30 grs. ; ^•^Isam co- 
paiba, sv/eet spirits of nitre, compound spirits of lavender, of 
each i oz. 

Shake the vial, and give forty drops ,every four hours, in 
with the other medicine, until the tongue becomes rooist, 
and the Diarrhea is pretty well subdued, when you will dis- 
continue this preparation, and continue the Febrifu£:e and 
snake root tea, as directed for fever in general. 

Note. — We do not believe that one case of fever in a tb<^usHnd 
will develops Typhoid symptoms, unless such cases have b^eu in- I 
jured in the treatment of the first stage, by a reducing com*se o{ | 
medicine, as bleeding, vomiting, especially emetic tartar, ourg- 
ing, especially with calomel, and compound extract of colocynth 
or oil, salts, or infusion of senna, and the common cooling pow- 
der, which is composed of saltpetre or nitre, and tartar emetic 
or ipecac, all of which irritate the mucous membrane of the 



k££DICAL DEPARTMJBiST. 65 

««omacb and bowels, and consequently produce determination 
^f blood to tbese parts, that results in irritation, engorgement, 
congestion, inliammation, and consequently Typhoid Fever. 

If fever is attended with the Dysentery, or Bloody Flux, it 
jhould be treated in the same manner precisely as Typhoid 
Fever, as it is nothing but Typhoid Fever with inflammation 
of the large, and sometimes small bowels. The treatment 
^iven for Typhoid Fever above, will cure all forms of Dysen 
tery as it does fever, but tli£ bloody and slimy discharges 
«rili continue for two or three days after the fever is sub- 
dued and the appetite and digestion are restored, and at 
dmes, especially if the patient discharge bile, which will be 
green, there will be a good deal of pain at stool, which, how- 
ever, will soon subside. 

7. Scarlet Fever. — If you have Scarlet Fever, treat it 
in all respects as fever in general, and if the patient's throat 
should show any indications of swelling, apply the Fever- 
Lmiment No. 3, and make the application of cold water in 
the same manner as there directed ; and it had better be re- 
peated every three or four hours until the swelling is entire- 
ly subdued, when the wet cloth should be substituted by a 
warm, dry, flannel one ; but if the patient's throat should 
Ulcerate, give a few drops of the Febrifuge every half hour, 
or hour, until the dark sloughs separate, and the throat looks 
red and clean, when you need only give the medicine at regu- 
lar intervals, as recommended for fever in general, that is, 
every two hours. If this treatment be pursued at the onset, 
the throat will seldom, if ever, ulcerate. 

8. Congestive, or Sinking Chill. — In case of Conges 
tive, or Sinking Chill, give the Febrifuge as directed for fever 
in general ; but if the patient be insensible and cold, or 
drenched in a cold perspiration, give the Febrifuge in a table- 
spoon of the snake root and valerian tea every hour until the 
patient becomes warm, and then give it every two hours to 
within twelve hours of the time he anticipates another chill, 
when you will give the following 

9. Stimulating Tonic. — Sulphate of quinine 20 grs, ; pulver- 
ized capsicum 30 grs. ; pulverized carbonate of ammonia 90 grs. ; 
mix and put into a bottle, and add 15 tea-spoons of cold water, 
ajid ^ve a tea-spoon, together with a tea-spoon of the Febrifuge, 



86 DR. chase's recipes* 

every hour, either alone, or what is better, in a tea-spoon of the 
8nake root and valerian tea, for 15 hours. 

The patient should lie in bed and drink fieely of penny- 
royal tea, or hot coffee, or some other hot tea, and after the 
time has elapsed for the chill, give the same as for fever ia 
general, until the patient is entirely recoveicd. xhe abovQ 
treatment will arrest any form of Ague, ana die ulter treat 
ment will, with any degree of care, prevent its rcburn. O 
the Ague maybe arrested most speedily, by taking one grai/i 
of quinine in a tea-spoon of the Febrifuge everj hour fot 
Bix hours preceeding a paroxysm, and then pursue the above 
tonic course. 

I have given the foregoing treatment for fevers, because 
I know that it is applicable in all cases, and that tae articles 
^re kept by all druggists. But there is a better, becauso 
quicker method of cure, and I am very sorry to say thac lor 
want of knowledge, in regard to the value of the mcdicine-j 
it is not usually kept by Druggists. I mean the Tincture 
of Gelseminum. It is an unrivaled Febril'uge. It relaxes 
the system without permanent rjiostration of strength. Its 
%jjecijic action is to cloud the vision, give double-sighted ness 
and inability to open the eyes, with distressed prostration; 
which will gradually pass off in a few hoars, leaving the pa- 
tient refreshed, and if combined with quinine, coajplctely 
restored. To administer it : 

10. Take the tincture of gelserainum 50 drops, put into a vial, 
and add 5 tea-spoons of water; quinine 10 grs. biiake wlien 
used. Dose — One tea-spoon in half a glass of sweeteneil water, 
and repeat every 2 hours. 

Watch carefully its action, and as soon as you disrover ita 
specific action as mentioned above, give no more. 

Dr. Hale, of this city, one of the more liberal rlass of 
physicians, (and I use the term, liberal, as synonymous with 
the term, successful,) prefers to add twenty-five drops of the 
tincture of veratrum viride with the gelseminum, and give 
as there directed. And in case that their full specific ac- 
tion should be brought on, give a few spoons of brandy, t<i 
raise the patient from his stupor, or what is preferable : 

11. Carbonate of ammonia ^ oz. ; water4ozs. ; mix. Dose— 
one table-spoon every 15 or 20 minutes, until revived. 

If Dr. Hale's addition should be used, it will be tWti<J 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 87 

applicable in all cases of fever, except in Typhoid acoompan 
led with its own excessive prostration; without the additiot 
of the veratrum it is applicable in all cases of fevers above 
described. Of course, in all cases where the fever is thus 
subdued, you will continue quinine, or some other appropri 
ate tonic treatment, to perfect a cure, and prevent a relapse. 
And it might not be amiss here to give a plan of preparing 
\ nourishing and agreeable lemonade for the sick, and espec 
ially for persons afflicted with fever : 

12. Lemonade, Nourishtng, for Fever Patients.— Arrow- 
root 2 or 3 tea-spoons rubbed up with a little cold water, in a 
bowl or pitcher, which will liold about 1 qt. ; then squeeze in 
the juice of half of a good sized lemon, with 2 or 3 table-spoona 
of white sugar, and pour on boiling water to fill the dish, con- 
stantly stirring w^hilst adding the boiling water. 

Cover the dish, and when cold, it may be freely drank to 
allay thirst, as also to nourish the weak, but some will pre- 
fer the following : 

13. Prof. Hufeland's Drink for Fever Patients or 
Excessive Thirst. — Cream oi tartar ^ oz. ; water 3 qts. ; boil 
mitil dissolved ; after taking it from the fire add a sliced orange 
with from 1^ to 3 ozs. of white sugar, according to the taste of 
tae palient ; bottle and keep cool. 

To be used for a common drink in fevers of all grades, 
and at any time when a large amount of drink is craved by 
iLo mvalid. Neither is there any bad taste to it for those 
i«i heaich. 

UT^.RINE HEMORRHAGES.-Prof. Platt's Treatment 
IVentv Yeaks Without a Failure. — Sugar of lead 10 grs. ; 
Ci-got IG grs. ; opium 3 grs. ; epicac 1 gr. ; all pulverized and 
well mixt;d. Dose — 10 to 12 grs., given in a little honey or 
syriip. 

In very bad cases after child-birth, it might be repeated 
in thirty minutes, or the dose increased to fifteen or eigh- 
teen grains ; but in cases of rather profuse wasting, repeat 
it once at the end of three hours, will usually be found all 
that is necessary, if not, repeat occasionally as the urgency 
of the case may seem to require. 

Prof. Piatt is connected with Antioch College, 0., and 
has been a very successful practitioner. 

DYSPEPSIA.— In the good old days of corn bread and 



b^ iyR. cajtssfi REoiPsa. 



1 



crust coffee, there was but little trouble with Dyspepsia \ 
but since the days of fashionable intemperance, both in 
eating and drinking, such as spirituous liquors, wines, beers, 
ale, tea, and coffee, hot bread or biscuit, high seasoned food, 
over-loading the stomach at meals, and constant eating and 
drinking between meals, bolting the food, as called, ihat is, 
swallowing it without properly chewing, excessive venevy, 
erant of out door exercise, with great anxiety of mind as to 
bow the means can be made to continue the same indulgen- 
ces, &c., all have a tendency to debilitiite the stomach, and 
bring on, or cause, Dyspepsia. 

And it would seem to the Author that the simple state 
ment of its cause — the truth of which no one can reason 
ably doubt — would be sufficient to, at least, suggest its cure 
But I am willing to state, that, as a general thing, this over- 
indulgence would not be continued, nor would it have been 
allowed, had they known iU awful consequences. I know 
that this was true in my own case, in all its points ; thi^ 
was, of course, before I had studied, or knew but little, of 
the power of the human system, or the practice of medi- 
cine, and it was for the purpose of finding something to 
c ure myself, that I commenced its study ; for it was by 
years of over-indulgence at table, and between meals, in the 
grocery business which I was carrying on, that I brought on 
fiucli a condition of the stomach that eating gave me the 
most intolerable suffering — a feeling almost impossible to 
describe ; first a feeling of goneness or vrant of support at 
the stomach, heat, lassitude, and finally pain, until a thou- 
sand deaths would have been a great relief; drink was 
craved, and the more I drark the more intolerable the suf- 
fering — apple cider, vinegar and water made palatable with 
sugar, excepted. It might be asked at this point, what did 
I do ? I would ask, what could I do ? Eat, I could not, 
drink I could not ; then what else was to be done, only, to 
do without either. What, starve ? No. 

Treatment. — Take, — no, just stop taking '* Thro^r ^li 
medicine to the dogs^' — yes, and food also. What, starve ? 
No, but simply get liungri/ ; whoever heard of a dyspeptic 
being hungry? at least, those who eat three meals a day. 
They eat because the victuals taste good — mouth-hunger, 
only. 



MEDiCAIi DEPARTMENT. 88 

The last year or tvvo of my dyspeptic life, I only ato be- 
cause it was eating lirae, and supposed I must eat or die, 
when I only died forty deliths, by eating. 

Ail physicians whose books I have read, and all whose 
p'escriptions 1 have obtained, say : ^' Eat little and often ; 
cjrink little and often.'' I say eat a little, and at the right 
time, tb'it is, wben hungry at the stomach; drink a littlci 
and ac the right time, that is, after digestion, and it is of 
j tit as much importance to eat and drink the right thing, 
as at the r ^ht time. 

Persons have been so low in Dyspepsia, that even one 
tea-spoon of food on the stomach would not rest ; in such 
cases, let nothing be taken by mouth for several days ; bu> 
inject gruel, rice water, rich broths, &c. ; but these cases 
occur very seldom. 

First. — Then, with ordinary cases, if there is much heat 
of the stomach, at bed time, wet a towel in cold water, 
wringing it out that it may not drip, and lay it over the 
Btomach, having a piece of flannel over it to prevent wet- 
ting the clothes. This will soon allay the heat, but keep it 
on during the night, and at any subsequent time, as may be 
needed. 

Second. — In the morning, if you have been in the habit 
of eating about tw^o large potatoes, two pieces of steak, tv/o 
slices of bread, or from four to six hot pancakes, or two to 
four hot biscuits, and drinking one to three cups of tea or 
(offee,— hold, hold, you cry; no, let me go on. I have 
jaany times seen all these eaten, with butter, honey, or mo- 
lasses, too large in amount to be mentioned, with a taste of 
every other thing on the table, such as cucumbers, tomatoes, 
&e., &c., and all by dyspeptics ; but, 

You will stop this morning on half of one potato, two 
inches square of steak, and half of one slice of cold, wheat 
bread — or I prefer, if it will agree with you, that you use 
the " Yankee Brown Bread,'' only the same quantity ; cat 
verjy slow^ chew perfectli/ fine^ and swallow it loithout v:a- 
ter^ tea, or coffee ; neither must you drink any, not a drop, 
until one hour before meal-time again, then as little as pos- 
sible, so as ygu think not quite to choke to death. 

Third. — The question now to be settled is, did you suffer 
from the ahuiulante of your bieakfast, or from the kind of 



90 PB. chase's recipes. 

food taken ? If yon did, take less next time, or chaiii >^ 
tlie kind^ and so continue to lessen the quant itj/. or chat^e 
the kind until you ascertain the proper quantity and kind, 
which enables you to overcome this exceeding suiieiing 
after meals ; nay, more, which leaves you periectly comfort- 
able after meals. 

Lastly — You now have the whole secret of curing the 
worst case of dyspepsia in the world You will, however, 
bear in mind that years have been spent in indulgence ; do 
not therefore expect to cure it in days^ nay, it will take 
months^ possibly a whole year of self-denial, watchfulness 
and care : and even then, one over loading of the stomach 
at a Christmas pudding will set you back again for months. 
Make up your mind to eat only shrqyle food, and that, in 
small quantities, notwithstanding an over-anxious wife, or 
other friend, will say, now do try a little of this nice pie^ 
pudding, or other dish, no matter what it may be. Oh ! 
now do have a cup of this nice coffee, they will often ask ; 
but ?zo, NO, must be the invariable answer, or you are again 
a " goner/' For there is hardly any disease equally liable 
to relapse as dyspepsia ; and indulgence in a variety of food, 
or over-eating any one kind, or even watery vegetable? or 
fruit, will be almost certain to make the patient pay dear foi 
the whistle. 

Then you must eat only such food ar you know to agree 
with you, and in just as sm.all quantities as will keep you in 
health. Drink no fluids until digestion is over, or about 
four hours after eating, until the stomach has become a little 
strong, or toned up to bear it, then one cup of the '^ ])yspep« 
sia CoiFee,^^ or one cup of the " Coffee Made Healthy,'' ma-9 
be used. But more difliculty is experienced from ovar- 
di inking, than over-eating. MoJ^t positively must Dvspopt.icR 
avoid cold water with their meals. If the saliva and gastrio 
juice are diluted with an abundance of any fluid, they rr^er 
have the same properties to aid, or carry on digestion, which 
they had before dilution ] then the only hope of the Dys- 
peptic is to use no fluid with his food, nor until digestioii 
has had her perfect work. 

Caution. — I may be allowed to give a word of cautioo 
to Mothers, as well as to all others. One^ plat^ of food i> 



MEDICAL DEfARTiTENX 91 

wioxtgh for health — two, and even three, are ofteu eaten. 
Mosc persons have heard of the lady who did not want a 
•^ cart load/' but when she got to eathig, it all disappeared, 
and ihe retort, ^^ liack up your cart and I will load it again/' 
was (ust what I would have expected to hear if the load had 
been given to a Dyspeptic, wliich it no doubt was ; then 
learb the proper amount of food necessary for healih, and 
whcb that is eaten, by yourself or child, stop. If pudding 
is on the table and you choose to have a little of it, it is ail 
right -have some pudding ; if pie, have a piece of pie ; or 
cake, have a piece of cake j but do not have ail, and that 
after you have eaten twice as much meat victuals as health 
requires. If apples, melons, raisins or nuts aie on the table, 
and you wish some of them, eat them before meal, and never 
after it; if surprise is manifested around you, say you eat 
to live, not live to eat. The reason for this is, that persons 
will eat all they need, and often more, of common food, then 
eat nuts, raisins, melons, &c., until the stomach is not only 
filh^d beyond comfort, but actually distended to its utmost 
capacity of endurance^ being led on by the taste, when if 
the reverse course was taken, the stomach becomes satisfied 
when a proper amount of the more common food has been 
eaten, atter the others. 

Are you a Grocer, and constantly nibbling at raisins, candy, 
cheese, apples, and every other edible ? Stop, until just be- 
fore meal, then eat what you like, go to your meal, and re- 
turn, not touching again until meal-time, and you are safe; 
continue the nibbling, and you do it at the sacrifice of future 
health. Have you children or other young persons under 
your care l See that they eat oniy a reasonable quantity at 
meals, and not anything between them; do fhis^ and I am 
willing to be called a /W by the youni::er ones, which I am 
sure to bo, but do it not, and the iool will snjjer for his 
folly. 

You may consider me a hard Dov-^tor — be it so then ; the 
drunkard calls him hard names who says give up your 
" cups," but as sure as he would die a drunkard, so sure 
will you die a Dyspeptic unless you give up your over-eating 
tnd over-drinkhiij of water, tea, coffee, wine, beer, ale, &c. 
Now you know the consequences, mit yourselves; but 1 



SI DR. CGASS 8 RECIPES. 

have paid too dearly for my experience, uot to lift a w^raing 
voice, or spare the guilty. 

In recent cases, and in cases brought on by over-indul 
gence, at some extra rich meal, you will find the " Dyspep- 
tic Tea,'' made from ^'Thompson's Composition," will be ail 
Bufhcient, as spoken of under that head, which see. 

2. The wild black cherries, put into Jamaica rum, ii 
highly recommended, made very strong with the cherries, 
and without sugar ; but I should say put them into some o! 
the domestic wines, or what would be still better, make a 
wine directly from them, according to directions under th^ 
head of " Fruit Wines/' 

3. Old '^ Father Pinkney,'' a gentleman over 90 years of 
age, assures me that he has cured many bad cases of Dy- 
B}>epsia, where they would give up their over indulgences, 
by taking : 

Blue flag root, w^ashed clean, and free from specks and rottea 
streaks, then pounding it and putting into a little warm w^ater, 
and straining out the milky juice, and adding sufficient pepper- 
sauce to make it a little hot. Dose — one table-spoon 3 times 
daily. 

It benefits by its action on the liver, and it would be good 
in Liver Complaints, the pepper also stimulating the stomach. 
See " Soot-Cofiee '' No. 12, amongst the Ague medicines. 

LARYNGITIS, — Inflammation of the Throat. — 
This complaint, in a chronic form, has become very pre- 
valent, and is a disease which is aggravated by every change 
of weather, more especially in the fall and winter months. 
It is considered, and that justly, a very hard disease to cure, 
but with caution, time, and a rational course of treatment, it 
can be cured. 

The difficulty with most persons is, they think that it is an 
uncommon disease, and consequently they must obtain some 
uncommon preparation to cure it, instead of which, some of 
the more simble remedies, as follows, will cure nearly every 
case, if persevered in a sufficient length of time. First, then, 
take the : 

Altekatr^ for Diseases op the Skin. — Compound tinc« 
ture of Peruvian bark 6 ozs. ; fluid extract of sarsaparilla 1 lb. ; 
extract ot conium ^ oz. ; iodide of potash, (often called hydrio- 
date) i oz. ; iodine \ dr. ; dissolve the extract of conium and tht 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 9*6 

powders in a little of the fluid, and mix all. Dose — Two tea- 
spoons 3 times daily, before meals, until all is taken. Shake the 
bottle well before using. 

In the next place, take the : 

2. GARQLifi FOR Sore Throat. — Very strong sage tea ^ pt. , 
strained honey, common salt, and strong vinegar, of each 2 table- 
spoons ; ca}M-nne, the pulverized, one rounding tea-spoon; 
steeping the cayenne with the sage, strain, mix, and bottle for 
use, gargling from 4 to a dozen times daily according to the 
severity of tht ease. 

This is one uf the very best gargles in use. By persever- 
ing some three months, I cured a case of two years standing 
where the months of the Eustachian tubes constantly dis- 
charged mattei at their openings through the tonsils into the 
patients mouth, he having previously been quite deaf, the 
whole throat being also diseased. I used the preparation for 
** Deafness '^ albo as mentioned under that head. 

llememberinp always to breath through nature's channel 
for the breath, the nose. 

Besides the foregoing, you will wash the whole surface 
twice a week with plenty of the '^ Toilet Soap,*' in water, 
wiping dry, then mth a coarse dry towel rub the whole sur- 
face for ten minutes at least, and accomplish the coarse towel 
part of it every night and morning until the skin will remain 
through the day with its flushed surface, and genial heat ; 
this draws the blood from the throat and other internal or 
gans^ or in other words, equalizes the circulation ; know, and 
act, upon this fact, and no inflammation can long exist, no 
matter where it is located. Blood accumulates in the part 
inflamed, but let it flow evenly through the whole system, 
and of course there can be no inflammation. 

Ton will also apply to the throat and breast the folbw- 
mg: 

3. Sore Throat Liniment. — Gum camphor 3 ozs. ; castile 
soap, shaved fine, 1 dr. ; oil of turpentine 1 table-spoon ; oil of 
origanum i oz. ; opium i oz. ; alcohol 1 pt. In a week or ten 
davs it will be fit for use, then bathe the parts freely 2 'Dr 3 times 
dally. 

This liniment would be found useful in almost any throat or 
other disease where an outward application might be needed. 
Lf the foregoing treatment should fail, there is no alternative 



94 pa. CHASE 8 RKC1PE8/ 

but to bring in emetics with the other treatmentj and cod 
tinue them for a long time. 

I mention the emetic plan last, from the fact that so manj 
people utterly object to the emetic treatment. But when 
everything else fails, that steps in and saves the patient 
which goes to show how xinjust the prejudice. By th*' 
phrase, a long time, I mean several weeks, twice daily af 
first, then once a day, and finally thrice to twice a w^eek, &o 
A part of this course you will see, by the following, is cor 
roborated by the celebrated Lung and Throat Doctor, S. S. 
Fitch, of New York, who says '^ it is a skin disease^ and that 
purifying medicines are necessary to cleanse the blood— 
taking long, full breaths,^^ &c. This is certainly good sense. 
His treatment of throat diseases is summed up in the fol- 
lowing * 

^OTE. — ** Wear but little clothing around the neck — chew of- 
ten a little nut-gall and swallow the juice — wear a w^et cloth 
about the throal^ at night, having a dry towel over it — bathe free- 
ly all over as in consumption, and especially bathe the throat 
W'ith cold water every morning, also wash out the inside of the 
throat with cold water — avoid crowded rooms — gargle with a 
very w^eak solution of nitrate of silver — chewing gold thread and 
swallowing the juice and saliva from it — borax and honey occa- 
sionall}^ and gum arable w^ater, if much irritation — use the 
voice as little as possible until w^ell, also often using a linimenl 
externally." 

I had hoped for very much benefit from using croton oil 
externally, but time has shown that the advantage derived 
from it is not sufficient to remunerate for the excessive irri- 
tation caused by its continued application. 

4. Smoking dried mullein leaves in a pipe not having 
been used for tobacco, is said to have cured many cases of 
Laryngitis. And I find in my last Eclectic ^ledical Jour- 
nal so string a corroboration, taken from the jMedical and 
Surgical lleporter, of this fact, that I cannot refrain from 
giving tho quotation. It says : '* in that form of disease in 
which there is dryness ol the trachea, icith a constant desire 
to clear* the throat, attended with little expectoration^ and 
considerable pain in the part affected, the mullein smoked 
through a pipe, acts like a charm, and allords instant relief. 
It seems to act as an anodyne in allaying irritation, while it 
promotes expectoration, and removes that gelatinous mucus 



rfBBICAL DEPAltTMENT. 95 

wliich gathers in the larynx, and, at the same time, by some 
U7iknoiDn power, completely changes the nature of the diy- 
ease, aad, if persevered in, will produce a radical cure/' 

We vead in a certain place of a gentlemaxi who was walk 
lug around and through a great city, and he came across an 
inscription " To the unknown God ''—and directly we lind 
him explaining that unknown Being to the astonished in- 
habitants. And I always feel, like this old-fashioned gen- 
tleman, to cry out, upon every convenient occasion, my be- 
lief, that It was that God's (/real wisdom, seeing what was 
roquirca, and His exctedincj goodness, providing accordino 
to our necessities, this wonderful, and to some, that unlawwn 
power in vhe thousands of plants around us. What matters 
U to us hofv it is done 1 If the cure is performed, it is suffi 
cient. 

^ Since the publication of the foregoing, in the ninth edi 
tion, I havt. been smoking the dried mullein, and recom- 
mending it io others. It has given general satisfaction for 
coughs and as a substitute for tobacco in smoking, exhilera- 
ting the nei ves, and allaying the hacking coughs from recent 
colds, by bioatnmg the smoke into the lunos. In one in- 
stance, aftei retiring, I could not rest from an irritation in 
the upper purtion of the lungs and throat, frequently hack- 
ing without relief only for a moment ; I arose, filled my pipe 
with mullein, returning to bed I smoked the pipeful, draw- 
ing it mto iJie lungs, and did not cough again durin^ the 
night. ^ 

An old gentleman, an inveterate smoker, from my su^-o-es- 
tion, began to mix the mullein with his tobacco, one-foTrth 
at first,^ for awhile; then half, and finally three-fourths: at 
this point he rested. It satisfied in place of the full amount 
tobacco, and cured a cough which had been lei't upon him 
after inflammation of the lungs. The flavor can hardly be 
distinguishea from the flavor of tobacco smoke, in rooiiis 

It can be gathered any time during the season, the centre 
titem removed, carefully dried, and rubbed fine, when it is 
iT.ady for use It gives a pipe the phthysic, as f^.st as it 
cures one on the patient ; but the clay pipe, which is to be 
osed, can be readily cleansed by burnin^>- out 

Here is the ^'Substitute for Tobacco" for which the 
French have offered 50,000 francs 



^6 DR. CQASE 8 RECIPES. 

It can be made into cigars by using a tobacco-leaf wrapper 
Catarrh is often more or less connected with that disease. 

[n such cases, in connection with the above treatment, take 

several times daily of the following : 

Catarrh Snuff.— Scotch snuS 1 oz. ; chloride of lime, dried 
and pulverized 1 rounding tea-spoon ; mix, and bottle, corking 
tightly. 

The snuff has a tendency to aid the secretion from the 
parts ; and the chloride corrects unpleasant fetor. ' 

CANCERS.— To Cure— Method of Dr. Landolfi, 
(Surgeon-General of the Neapolitan Army) and sev- 
eral Successful American Methods —The principle 
upon v/hich the treatment is based, consists in transforming 
a 'tumor of a malignant character, by conferring upon it a 
character of benignity, which admits of cure. This trans- 
formation is effected by cauterization with an agent^ looked 
upon as a specific, viz : chloride of bromine, combined^ or 
not, with other substances, which have already been tried, 
but have hitherto been employed separately. The inlor- 
nal treatment is merely auxiliary. ^ (Cancers may be knowQ 
from other tumors by their shooting, or lancinating pains ; 
and if an open sore, from their great fetor. — x\uthor.) 
The formulas for the caustics are, with the exception of a 
few cases, the following : 

Equal parts of the chlorides of zinc, gold, and antimony, 
mixed with a sufficient quantity of flour to form a viscid paste. 

At Vienna, he used a mixture of the same substances in differ- 
ent proportions, chloride of bromine 3 parts ; chloride of zin^, 3 
-^arts ; chloride of gold and antimony, each 1 part ; made intti a 
thick paste with powdered licorice root. Tliis pre})aratJoii 
siiould be made in an open place, on account of the gases which 
are disengaged. . ^. , , 

The essential element is the chloride of bfomme, whicu nasi 
often been emplo3^ed alone ; thus, chloride of bromine from 2^ 
to 4 drs., and put licorice root as much as sufficient. 

The chloride of zinc is indispensable in ulcerated cancers, 
in which it acts as a hemastatic, (stopping blood.) The 
chloride of gold is only useful in cases of encephaloid 
(br»in like) cancers, in which it exercises a special, if not a 
epeciSc action. Oancers of the skin, (epitheliomas,) lupun^ 
and small cystosarcomas, (^watery or bloody tumors,) are 
treated with bromind mixed with basilicoB ointment in thtf 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT, 97 

proportion of one part of bromine to eight of the ointment ; 
the application should not extend to the healthy parts, its 
action being often propagated through a space of one or two 
lines. The paste is only allowed to remain on about twenty- 
four hours ; on removing the dressing a line of demarkation 
l8 almost always found separating the healthy from the mor- 
bid parts. The tumor is itself in part whitish and part 
reddish, or marbled with yellow and blue. The caustic is 
replaced with the poultice, or with compresses smeared with 
basilieon ointment only, which are to be removed every three 
hours until the scar is detached ; the pain progressively di- 
minishing in proportion as the mortification advances, tlie 
line ot demarkation daily becomes more evident ; about the 
fourth or fifth day the cauterized portion begins to rise, and 
from the eighth to the fifteenth day it becomes detached, or 
can be removed with forceps, and without pain, exposing 
a suppurating surface, secreting pus of good quality and 
covered with healthy granulations. If any points remain 
of less satisfactory appearance, or present traces of morbid 
growth, a little of the paste is to be again applied, then dres. 
the sore as you would a simple ulcer; if the suppuration 
proceeds too slowly, dressit with lint dipped in the following 
solution : 

Chloride of bromme 20 or 30 drops ; Goulard's Extract from 
1 to 2 drs, ; distilled water 16 ozs. 

In the majority of cases healing takes place rapidly, cica- 
trization progresses from the circumference to the center, 
00 complications supervene, and the cicatrix (scar,) resem- 
bles that left by a cutting instrument. His internal remedy, 
to prevent a relapse, is, 

Chloride of bromine 2 drops ; powder of the seeds of water 
fennel 23 grs. ; extract of hemlock (Coniam Maciilatum) 12 grs. ; 
mix and divide into 20 pills ; one to be taken daily for 2 months, 
and after that, 2 pills daily for a month or two longer, 1 night 
and morning, after meals. 

In any case of Cancer, either the foregoing, interna! rem- 
edy, or some of the other Alteratives, should be taken two 
or three weeks before the treatment is commenced, and 
should also be continued for several weeks after its cure. 

2. Dr. H. G. Judkins' Method. — This gentleman, of 
Malaga, Monroe Co., 0., takes : 

4«— Da. chase's recipes. 



y© DR. CHASE 6 RECIPS3. 

Chloride of zmc the size of a hazel nut, and puts enough wat€S 
with it t'j make a thin paste, then mixes with it equal parts of 
flour, and finely pulverized charcoal, sulScient to form a tole- 
rable siill' paste. 

He spreads this on a soft piece of sheep skin, sufiicientlj 
large to cover the tumor, and applies every tvro days until 
it is detached, then dresses it with '* Judkins' Ointment/^ 
wliicb see. Again — 

3. L. S. HoDGKiNs' Method. — This gentleman is a mer- 
chant, of Eeding, Mich. The method is not original witii 
him, but he cured his v^rife with it, of cancer of the breasi, 
after having been pronounced incurable. Some would use 
it because it contains calomel — others would not use it fol 
the same reason; I give it an insertion from the fact that 1 
am well satisfied that it has cured the disease, and from ita 
singularity of composition. 

Take a white oak root and bore out the heart and burn the 
chips to get tlie ashes, J oz. ; lunar caustic i oz. ; calomel ^ oz. , 
salts of nitre (salt petre) ^ oz. ; the body of a thousand-legged 
worm, dried and pulverized, all to be made fine and mixed wi'ih 
^ ib. of lard. 

Spread this rather thin upon soft leather, and apply to the 
Cancer, changing twice a day ; will kill the tumor in three or 
four days, which you will knov/ by the general appearance; 
then apply a poultice of soaked figs until it comes out, fibres 
and all ; heal with a plaster made by boiling red beech 
leaves in water, straining and boiling thick, then mix with 
beeswax and mutton tallow to form a salve of proper con- 
sistency. To cleanse the system while the above is being 
dsed, and for some time after: 

Take mandrake root, pulverized, 1 oz. ; epsora salts 1 oz. ; put 
into pure gin i pt., and take of this 8 times daily, from 1 tea to 
a table-spoon, as you can bear. He knew of several other cured 
from the same plan. 

4. Tlie juice of pokeberries, set in the sun, upon a pew- 
ter dish, and dried to a consistence of a salve, and applied 
as a plaster, has cured cancer. 

5. Poultices of scraped carrots, and of yellow dock root, 
have both cured, and the scraped carrot poultices, especially, 
not only cleanse the sore, but remove the very offensive 
smell or fetor, which is characierisiic of cancers. 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 99 

6. A gentleman in Ohio cures tliem by making a tea of 
thQ yellow dock root, and drinking of it freely, washing the 
^ore with the same several times daily for several days.1:hea 
poulticing with the root, mashed and apphed twice daily 
even on the tongue. ^ 

7. Rev. C. C. Cuyler, of Poughkeepsie, N, Y., says he 
has known several cases cured as follows : 

Take the narrow-leaved dock root and boil it in soft watei 
UDiii very slrono;, wash the ulcer with this strong decoction 3 
tmieb in the 24 hours, till the cavity also with the same 2 min- 
utt;^, each time, then braise the root, and lay it on ?auze, and lav 
the ^rauze next to tne ulcer, and wet linen doths in the decoction 
ana idy over the poultice; and eacii time let the patient drink a 
wineglass of the stron.a tea of the same root, with ^ of a ^dass 
ol port w^ine sweeteitod with honey. " ^ 

8. Dr. Buchan's work on Medicine, gives the case of a 
person who had cancer of the tongue, cured in fourteen 
a ays, as follows : 

Dilute nitric acid 1 oz; honey 2 ozs. ; pure w^ater 2 pts. ; mix. 
posE—Three table-spoons frequently; to be suclvcd past tk<3 
teeth, through a quiii or tube. 

Opium was given at nighty simply to keep down pain. 

9. Great English Eemedy— by which a brother of 
Lowell Mason was cured, is as follows : 

Take chloride of zinc, blood-root pulverized, and flour equal 
quantities of each, w^orked into a paste and applied until the 
mass comes out, then poultice and treat as a simple sore. 

The Eural New Yorker, in reporting this case, says, in 
atpplymg it, '^ First spread a common sticking-plaster much 
larger than the cancer, cutting a circular piece from the 
center of it a iMe larger than the cancer, applying it, which 
exposes a narrow rim of healthy skin ; then apply the can- 
cer plaster and keep it on twenty-four hours. On removincr 
it, the cancer will be found to be burned into, and appears 
the color of an old shoe-sole, and the rim outside will ap 
pear white and parboiled, as if burned by steam. 

'' Dress with slippery-elm poultice until suppuration takes 
place, then heal with any common salve.'' 

^ iO AuMENTAN ?>lETHOD.— In Armenia, a salve, made by boil- 
mg olive od to a proper consistence for the use, is reported bv 
an eastern traveler to have cored very bad cases 



10© DR. chase's recipes. 

11. Figs boiled in new milk until tender, then split andap. 
plied hot — changing twice daily, washing the parts every change, 
with some of the milk — di'inking 1 gill of the milk also aa 
often. 

And continueing from three to four months, is also re- 
ported to have cured a man ninety-nine years old by using 
only six pounds, whilst ten pounds cured a case of ten years* 
standing. The first application giving pain, but afterwards 
relief, every appUcation. 

12. Red Oak Bark — A salve from the ashes, has long 
been credited for curing cancer, and as I have recently seen 
the method given for preparing and using it, by Isaac Dil- 
lon, of Oregon, published in a paper near him, I cannot 
keep the benefit of it from the public. The directions were 
sent to him by his father, John Dillon, Sen., of Zanesville, 
0., and, from my knowledge of the Dillon family, I have 
the utmost confidence in the prescription. It is as follows : 

Take red oak bark ashes 1 peck ; put on to them, boiling wa- 
ter 6 qts. ; let it stand 12 hours ; then draw off the ley and boil 
to a thick salve ; spread this, pretty thick, upon a thick cloth a 
little larger than the cancer, and let it remain on 3 hours ; if it 
Is too severe, half of that lime; the same day, or the next, applj 
again 3 hours, which will generally efiect a cui*e ; after the last 
piaster, wash the sore with warm milk and water ; then apply a 
healhig salve made of muiton tallow, bark of elder, with a little 
rosin and bees-wax, (some root of white lilly may be added J 
slewed over a slow tire; when the sore begins'^to matterate, 
wash it 3 or 4 times daily, renewing the salve each time; avoid 
strong diet, and strong drink, but driDk a tea of sassafras root 
ind spice- W(;od tops, tor a week before and after the plaster. 

13. Prof. R S. Newton, of Cincinnati, uses the chloride 
of zinc, a saturated solution, (as strong as can be made,) or 
makes the chloride into a paste, with thick gum solution. 

In cases of large tumors he often removes the bulk of 
them with a kniie, then applies the solution, or paste, as be 
thinks best, to destroy any remaining roots which have been 
severed by the knife. 

14. Prof. Calkins, of Philadelphia, prefers a paste made 
from yellow-dock, red -clover, and poke, using the leaves only, 
of either article, in equal quantities. 

Boiling, straining, and simmering to a paste, applying 
from time to time, to cancerous growths or tumors, until the 
entire mass is destroyed, then poultice and heal as usua) 



irfEDlCAL DEPART/^iifHr. 101 

Bat Dr. Beach, of N. Y., who is a man of much expcri- 
ence in cancers, sajs beware of the knife, or any plaster 
which destroi/si\\Q cancer oi- tumor; but first use discutients, 
(medicines which have a tendency to drive away swellings,) 
unless already ulcerated, then, mild poultices to keep up 'a 
discharge from the ulcer, with alteratives, long continued, 
kebpiog the bowels regular, &c., &c. The Vienna pjiysi' 
cians, as well as Dr. Beach, allow the inhalation of a few 
drops of chloroform where the pain is excruciating. And 1 
would say, apply a little externally, also, around the sore. 

Caacwrs should not be disturbed as long as they do not 
grow aor ulcerate, but as soon as either begins, then is the 
time to begin with them. 



CO^^rfVENESS— To CuRE.—Costive habits are often 
brought OKi by neglecting to go to stool at the usual time, 
foi most pejfeons have a regular daily passage, and the most 
usual time is at rising in the morning, or immediately after 
breakfast ; but hurrj, or negligence, for the want of an un- 
derstanding of the evil arising from putting it off, these calls 
of nature are suppressed ; but let it be understood, 7iature 
like a good workman or student, has a time for each duty ; 
then not only let her work at her own time, but if tardy go 
at this time and not only aid but soHcit her call, or in other 
words : 

When nature caiZs, at either d^oov, do not attempt to bluCf-her • 
But hasU:-away, nii,'ht or cUy, or Jiealth is sure to suffer. ' 

"pie above with attention to diet, using milk, roasted apples 
and if not dyspeptic, uncooked apples, pears, peaches, &c at 
meal time, '^ Yankee Brown Bread," or bread made of unbolted 
wheat, if preferred, and avoiding a meat diet, will in most cas<^a 
toon remedy the difficulty. Plowever : 

2. In vehy OBSTiyA^TE Cases— Take extract of henbane 1 dr, , 
extract ®f colocynth i dr. ; extract of nux vomica 3 gi-s. ; care- 
fiUly work into pill ma^s, and form into 15 pills. Dose— one 
pill night and morning. 

Continue their use ULtil the difficulty is overcome, at the 
'«u»e time, following the previous directions, faithfully. 



102 DR. ckask's recipes. 

With many persons, the followirxg will be found all sufBcient : 

8. Brandy. — ^ pt. ; tiud put into it rhubarb-root, bruised, 1 
dr. ; liiera-picra 1 oz. ; VLud ieniiel seed 4- oz. 

After it has stood for several days, take a table-spoon of 
jL three Mines daily, before eating, until it operates, then hail 
rh'.' <iu;intiry, or a little less, just'sumcient to establish a daily 
ix:.ion ot the bowels, until all is taken. Or, the second pill 
under the head of Eclectic Liver Pill may be taken as an 
alterative to bring about the action of the liver, which is, of 
course, more or less inactive in most cases of long continued 
costiveness. 

4. CouN MEATi — 1 table-spoon stirred up in sufficient cold 
vvriter to 'Irink well, and drank in tiie morning, immediately aftei 
risiu^r^ l,as, with perseverance, cured many bad cases. 

5. A Fur.sH Egg — Beat in a gill of water and drank on 
rising in the morning, and at each meal, for a week to ten 
days, has cured obstinate cases. It might be increased to 
two or three at a time, as the stomach will bear. 

CHRONIC GOUT— To Cure.—" Take hot vinegar, and put 
Liito it all the table salt w-hich it will dissolve, and bathe the 
parts ulfected with a soft piece of flannel. Rub in with the hand, 
and dry the foot, ifcc, by the tire. Repeat this operation four 
times in tlie 24 hours, 15*^minittes each time, for four days; then 
twice a day for the same period ; then once, and follow this rule 
wiienever "the symptoms show themselves at any future time.* 

The philosophy of the above formula is as follows : Chronic 
iTout proceeds from the obstruction of the free circulation oi 
the blood (in the parts aifected) by the deposit of a chaiky 
substance, which is generally understood to be a carbonate 
and phosphate of lime. Vinegar and salt dissolve the^e ; 
and the old chronic compound is broken up. The carbonate 
of lime, &c., become acetate and muriate, and these being 
soluble, are taken up by the circulating system, and dis- 
» harged by secretion. This fact will be seen by the gouty 
joints becoming less and less in bulk until they assume their 
natural size. During this process, the stomach and bowels 
should be occasionally regulated by a gentle purgative. Ab 
stinence from spirituous libations; exercise in the open air. 
and especially in the morning; freely bathing the whoh 
surface ; eating only the plainest food, and occupying thf 
tim<i by study, or useful employment, are very desirable as 
8iBlaQta. 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. lOS 

2. Gout Ttncture.— Veratriim viride, (swamp hel>>bore) i 
oz. ; opium | oz. ; wint^ ^ pt. ; lei them stand for several days. 
Dose — 15 to 80 drops, according to the robustness of tLe patient, 
ii intervals of two to four hours. 

M. Husson, a French officer, introduced this remedy in 
«^out some sixty years ago, and it became so celebrated that it 
sold as high as from one to two crowns a dose. It is con- 
sidered valuable also in acute rheumatism. In gout it re- 
moves the paroxysms, allays pain, and procures lest and 
sleep, reduces the pulse and abates fever. 

3. Ooffee has recently been recommended, not only for 
ir<mt, but gravel also. Dr. Mosley observes, in his "• Trea- 
dle on Coffee/* that the great use of the article in France is 
supposed to have abated the prevalence of the gravel. In 
the French colonies, where coffe is more used than in the 
Kuiilisii, as well as in Turkey, where it is tlie principal bev- 
erajie. tiot only tl^e gravel but the gout is scarcely known. 
Dr. Faar relates, as an extraordinary instance of the effect 
of coffee on gom, the case of Dr. Deveran, who was attacked 
with gout at th*^ age of twenty-five, and had it severely till 
he was upwar-'s^ of fifty, with chalk stones in the joints of 
his hands ar.* feet; but for four years proceeding the time 
when the ^u'.count of his case had been given to Dr. Faur to 
lay beforr the public, he had, by advice, used coffe, and had 
no ret im of the gout afterward. 

PA r^ A LYSIS,— If Recent — To Cure. — When paraly- 
sis, ^'numb palsy) has existed for a great length of time, but 
little benefit can be expected from any treatment ; but if 
recent, very much good, if not a perfect cure will be the re- 
sult of faithfully governing yourself by the following direc- 
tions with this : 

Paralytic Liniment. — Sulphuric ether 6 ozs. ; alcohol 2 ozs. ; 
laudanum 1 oz. ; oil of lavender 1 oz. ; mix and cork tightly. In 
a recent case of paralysis let the whole extent of the mimb sur- 
face be, thoroughly bathed and rubbed with this preparation, 
for several minutes, using the hand, at least 3 times daily, at the 
same time take internally, 20 drops of the same, in a little sweet- 
ened water, to prevent translation upon some internal organ. 

Ft may be used in old cases, and, in many of them, will 
undoubtedly do much good ; but I do not like to promise 
what there is no reasonable chance to perform. It is weli 



r*4 DR. chabe'b recipes 

in very recent eases to keep the parts covered with flannels, 
with a large amount of friction by the hand ; also, electricity 
^scientifically applied, that is by a Physician or some one who 
lias studied the nature and operations of the electrical ma- 
chine. 

This liniment should be applied so freely, that abcut an 
ounce a day will be consumed, on an arm or leg, and if a 
whole side is palsied, proportionoily more. In cases of paiuf^ 
in the stomach or side a tea-spoon will be taken with unusuLil 
success J or for pain in the head, apply to the surface, always 
bearing in mind that some should be taken internally when- 
ever an external application is made. In sprains and bruises 
where the surface is not broken it will be found very efica- 
eious. It may be, successfully, rubbed over the seat of any 
internal disease accompanied with pain. 

ENLARGED TONSILS— To Cure,— Where the tonsils 
are enlarged from colds, or epidemic sore throat. 

Take No. six 1 oz. ; molasses 2 ozs. ; and hot water 4 ozs. , 
mix and sip a little into the throat often, swallowing a little also ; 
it keeps up a discharge of saliva from tliose parts and thus re- 
lieves their swollen condition ; and stimulates to renewed healthy 
action. 

It has proved very efficacious in the above epidemic cases, 
which leave the tonsils much indurated (hardened), as well 
as swollen, with a tendency to chronic inflammation of the 
whole larynx, or throat, often with little ulcers. In that 
case : 

Put 10 grs. of nitrate of silver to 1 oz. of w^ater with 3 or 4 
drops of creosote, and swab the throat with it, and lay a flannel 
wet with turpentine upon the outside. 

The worst cases will shortly yield to this mild treatment. 
Should there, however, be a disposition to fever, you might 
also put the feet into hot water fifteen or twenty minutes, 
with occasional sponging the whole surface. 

SICK HEAD ACHE— To Cure.— Sick head ache, pio- 
per, arises from acidity, or over-loading the stomach ; when 
it is not from over eating, all that is necessary, is to soak the 
feet in hot water about twenty minutes, drinking at the same 
time some of the herb-teas^ such {ss pennyroyal catnip, oi 
mint, &c., then get into be-i, cover up wai-m and keep up a 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 105 

iweating process for about an hour, by which time relief 
will have been obtained ; but when food has been taken which 
remains in the stomach, it is much the best way to take an 
emetic, and the following is the : 

2. Eclectic Emetic. — Which is composed of lobelia, and 
Ipecacuanha, equal parts, and blood root half as much as of 
either of the oiLers, each pulverized separately, and mix tljor* 
oughly. Dobs- Half a common tea-spoon every 15 or 20 min- 
ates in some of the warm teas, for instance, camomile-flowers, 
pennyroyal, or boneset— drinking ft'eely between doses of the 
same tea in which you take it ; continue until you get a free and 
full evacuation of the contents of the stomach. 

After the operation, and when the stomach becomes a 
little settled, some nourishment will be desired, when any 
of the mild broths, or gruel, should be taken, in small quan- 
tities, without fear of increasing the difficulty. 

" There is, probably, no emetic surpassing this, either in 
efficacy of action, or effici?ncy in breaking up morbid, un- 
healthy conditions of the system generally ; and exciting ' 
healthy action. It is excellent in croup, chronic affections 
of the liver or stomach, &c., and in fact, when and where 
ever an emetic is needed. ^^ — Beach. 

But after a full trial of both, upon my own person and 
others, 1 prefer lobelia seed alone, pulverized when used. 
The manner of administering them has been the cause of 
bringing the lobelia emetic into disrepute. I take " Thomp- 
son's Composition^' tea, made as there directed and drink 
two saucers of it, fifteen minutes apart, and with the third 
[ stir in one rounding tea-spoon of lobelia seed, pulverized, 
and drink it ; then every fifteen minutes I take another 
saucer of the tea until free vomiting takes place, not taking 
any more of the lobelia ; by this course I think it more effi- 
cient and thorough than the mixed emetic, and entirely free 
from danger of the ^^ alarming symptoms," as they are called, 
brought on by continuing to give the lobelia every few min- 
utes instead of waiting its action, and all for want of knowl- 
edge as to what that action should be ; but if you give it its 
own time, continuing the stimulating tea, it will have ita 
specific action, which is to vomit, no matter at which end it 
is introduced. When it begins to vomit it will generally 
continue its action until it empties the stomach, then I begin 
to substitute the composition with : 



106 DR. chase's recipes. 

3. Bread Tea, Used in Taking Emetics.— MaJe by taking a 
piece of dry bread and crumbing it iotoabowl, wiili a liiilesalt, 
pepper, and butter, to suit the taste, then pouring boiling watei 
upon it ; this soon alla^^s the retching, and strengthens the stom- 
ach to renevred healthy action. 

Periodical Headache. — There are those who have sick 
headache coming on at periods of from a few weeks to uo 
or three months, lasting two or three days, accompanied 
with nausea, and occasionally with vomiting. In these casoi^ 
after using tlie emetic to relieve the present attack, rake 
the Cathartic Syrup next following ; 

4. Cathartic Sytutp. — Best senna leaf loz. ; jalap i oz. ; but- 
tcinut, tliC inner bark of the root, dried and bruised, 2 oz. ; pep- 
permint leaf i oz. ; tennel seed I oz. ; alcohol i pt. ; water 1^ 
pts. ; sugar 2 lbs. ; put all into the spirit and w^ater, except the 
sugar, and let it stand 2 weeks, then strain, pressing out from 
the dregs, adding the sugar and simmering a few minutes only, 
to form the syrup. If ir should cause griping in any case, in- 
crease the fennel seed and peppermint leaf Dose — One table- 
spoon, once a day, or less often if the bowels become too loose, 
up to the next period when the headache might have been 
e.\[)ected, and it will not be forthcoming. 

This is a mild purgative, and especially pleasant. Most 
persons, after a trial of it, will adopt it for their genera) 
cathartic, and especially for children. Increase or lessen 
the dose, according to the effect desired. 

Females in a weak and debilitated condition, often have 
a headache which is purely sympathetic ; this they will dis- 
tiuguish by their general weakness, irregularities, and ligh^ 
headedness, often amounting to real pain ; in such cases 
take the following : 

"^ Headache Drops. — Castor, gentia,n, and valerian roots, 
oruised, i oz. ; laudanum 1 oz. ; suhphuric ether 1^ oz. ; alcohoV 
\ pt. ; water ^ pt. ; put all into a bottle and let stand about IQ 
lays. Dose — A tea-spoon as often as required, or 2 or 3 timea 
iaily. 

6. Tincture op Blood-Root. — Made by putting 1 oz. of the 
Iried, bruised root, to 1 pt. of gin, and taking 1 tea-spoon, befoi« 
vjating, every morning, and only eating a reasonable amount of 
easily digested food : 

Has worked wonders in cases where headaches had bead 
ol very long standing. And it might not be amiss to say 
chat the majority of headaches are found amongst those who 
aie disposed to Dyspepsia, by long continued over-eating, 



MEDICAL'DEPARTMENT. 107 

'.bor; r(-ducinc: the f^jistric juice by over-drinking, even of 

A Niies paper gives one which is easily tried It is as 

h»iiows : 

7, " Charcoal, a Cuke for Sick IlEADACHE.~It is stated 
Chat two tea-spoons of finely pow^dered charcoal, drank in half 
^ tiunbler of water, W'ili, in less than 15 minutes, give relief 
10 the sick headache, when caused, as in most cases it is, by 
superabundance of acid on the stomach. We have tried this 
remedy time and again, and its emcacy in every instance has 
been signally satisfactory." 

When headache has been brought on by eating too freely 
of boiled beef, cabbage, &c., or any other indigestible din- 
ner, one cup of " good tea,^^ at tea time, eating only a slice 
of dry bread, will often allay the nervousness, quiet the 
head, and aid in getting to sleep. The '^ Good Samaritan '* 
applied to the head is also good. 

DELIRIUM TREMENS.-- To Obtain SLEEP.-Give an emetic 
of i|)ccacuanha, then give 15 to 18 grs. of the same, every 2 
hours, using the shower bath, and giving all the beef-tea the 
patient desires. 

The jail physician of Chicago reports thirty-six favorable 
cases treated as above. In Boston, at the '' House of (Cor- 
rection,'' the danger arising from the sudden loss of theii 
accustomed stimulus, according to Puritanic economy, b 
overcome by administering, freely, a strong decoctiuu of 
wormwood. 

2. Stimulating Anodyne. — Sulpliate of quinine 12 gv% 
sulphate of mori)hine 1 gr. ; mix, and divide into 6 powders 
Dose — One powder every hour. 

Prof King, of Cincinnati, 0., says that from two to foui 
powders of the above anodyne, will nearly every time pro 
duce sleep in this whisky delirum. 

TYPHUS FEVER.— To Prevent Infection.— Take nitre 
(salt petre,) pulverized, f oz. ; oil of vitriol f oz. ; put the nitrr 
mto a tea-cup and set it on a red hot shovel, adding the vitrioi 
une-sixth at a time, stirring* it with a pipe stem; avoiding tht 
fumes as they rise from the cup ; no danger, however, in bi'eatb 
ing the air of the room. 

The above amount is sufficient for a room twelve by six 
teen feet, and less or more according to the size of other 
rooms. Dr. J. C, Smith, of Loudon, is said to have re- 



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ceived from Parliament £5000 for making this recipe public. 

2. To purify the air from noxious effluvia in sick rooms, 
Qot of a contagious character, simply slice three or four 
onions, place them on a plate upon the floor, changing them 
three or four times in the twenty-four hours. 

3. Disinfectant, for Rooms, Meat, and Fish. — Common 
6alt ^ a tea-cup ; sulphuric acid 2 or 3 oz. ; put about i oz. of 
of the acid upon the salt at a time, every 15 minutes, stirring, 
until all put on : 

Which will purify a large room ; and for meat or fish, 
hang them up in a box having a cover to it, and thus confine 
the gas, and tainted articles of food will soon be purified, by 
the same operation. And notwithstanding so much was 
paid for the '^ Smith Disinfectant,'^ the above will be found 
equally good. 

4. Coffee, dried and pulverized, then a little of it 
sprinkled upon a hot shovel, will, in a very few minutes, 
clear a room of all impure effluvia, and especially of an ani- 
mal character. 

5. Chloride of Lime — Half a saucer of it, moistened 
with an equal mixture of good vinegar and water, a few 
drops at a time only, will purify a sick-room in a few min 
utes. 

SWEATING PREPARATIONS.— Sweating Drops.— Ipe- 

cacuanha, saffron, Virginia snake root, and camphor gum,- each 
2 ozs. ; opium ^ oz. ; alcohol 2 qts. Let stand 2 weeks, sliaking 
occasionally. Dose — A tea-spoon in a cup of hot pennyroyal, 
spearmint, or catnip tea, every half hour, until perspiration is 
induced ; then once an hour, for a few hours. 

It is excellent in colds, fevers, pleurisy, inflammation of 
the lungs, &c. It is good to soak the feet in hot water at 
the same time. 

2. Sweating tvith Bukning Alcohol. — Pour alcohol into a 
Baucsr, to about half fill it; place this under a chair; strip the 
person, to be sweated, of all clothing, and place him in the chair, 
putting a comforter over him, also ; now light a match and throw 
into the saucer of alcohol, which sets it on fire, and by the time 
the alcohol is burned out he will be in a profuse perspiration, if 
not, put in half as much more of alcohol and fire it again, which 
will accomplish the object; then rise up and draw the com- 
forter around you, and get into bed, following up with hot teaa 
and sweating drops,as in the first above. 



MfeDlCAL DEPARTMENT. 109 

This last plan of sweating is also good in ret/Cut colds, 
^♦feurisy, inflammation of the lungs, and all Oihei inflamma- 
tory diseases, either in recent attacks, or of long standing 
complaints. See the closing remarks after the tieatment of 
^ Pleurisy,'* aIj^o " Ginger Wine/' 

IMPERIAL DROP— For Gravel and Kidney Com- 
plaints. — Take saltpetre 1 oz. ; putting it into an iron mortar, 
dropping in a live coal with it, which sets it on fire ; stir it 
around until it all melts down into the solid form, blow out the 
coals, and pulverize it ; then take an equal amount of bi-carbon- 
ate of potassia, or suleratus, and dissolve both in soft water 3 
ozs. Dt)SE — from 20 to 30 drops, morning and evening, in a 
swallow of tea made from flax seed, or a solution of gum arabic. 

In connection with the drops, let the patient take from 
d table-spoon to two or three table-spoons of onion juice — 
that is, all the stomach will bear — eating all the raw onions 
he can, and continue it until free of the complaint. I have 
seen gravel the size of a common quill, crooked, and one 
and one-fourth inches in length, which a lady passed from 
the bladder, and smaller bits almost innumerable, by the 
simple use of onion juice alone. 

The onion juice, (red onions are said to be the best,) has, 
and may be injected through a catheter into the bladder ; 
have no fears to do this, for I know a physician of forty 
years' practice who has done it five times with success — a 
physician, however, would have to be called to introduce 
the catheter. 

2. In what is termed ^^ Fits of the gravel," that is, where 
small gravel has become packed in the ureter, (tube which 
leads from the kidney to the bladder,) causing excruciating 
pain in that region, a pill of opium must be given, varying 
in size from one to three grains, according to the pain, 
strength, and age of the patient. 

3. A strong decoction made by using a large handful of smart 
weed, adding a gill of gin, and a gill each of horse mint and 
onion juices, and taking all in 12 hours, has been known to dis- 
charge gravel in large qu2U[itiiies.—P7dladelpJtia Eclectic Journal. 

The surest sign of gravel is the dark appearance of the 
urine, as if mixed with coffee grounds, and a dull pain in 
the region of the kidney — if only inflamation, the darkness 
will not appear. See the closing remarks upon Gout. 

CAMPHOR ICE,— Fob Chapfed Hands ob Lips.— Sj)erm- 



llO DR, chase's recipes. 

aceti tallow 1^ ozs. ; oil of ST^eet almonds 4 tea-spoons ; gum 
camphor f oz. ; made fine. Set on the stove until dissolved, 
constantly stirring. Do not use only just sufficient heat to melt 
them. 

W hilst warm, pour into moulds if desired to sell, then 
paper aud put up in tin foil. If for your own use, put up 
in a tight b6x. Apply to the chaps or cracks two or three 
times daily, especially at bed time. 

BURiS'S.— Salve for Burns, Fhost-Bites, Cracked Nip- 
ples, &c. — Equal parts of turpentine, sweet oil, and beeswax ; 
melt the oil and wax together, and when a little cool, add the 
turpentine, and stu' UEtii cold, which keeps them evenly mixed. 

Apply by spreading upon thin cloth — linen is the best. 
I used this salve upon o!ie of my own children, only a year 
and a half old, which had pulled a cup of hot cofiee upon 
itself, beginning on the eye lid and extending down the face, 
Deck and breast, also over the shoulder, and in twG t)lacea 
across the arm, the skin coming off with the clothes : in 
fiileen minutes from the application of the salve, the child 
was asleep, and it never cried again from the buro, and not a 
particle of scar left. 

It is good for chaps on hands or lips, or for any other 
sore. If put on burns before blistering has taken place, 
they will not blister. And if applied to sore or cracked 
nipples every time after the child nurses, it soon cures them 
also. For nipples, simply rubbing it on is sufficient. I had 
it valuable also for pimples, and common healing purposes ; 
and I almost regret to add any other preparations for the 
same purposes, for fear that some will neglect this ; but 
as there may be cases where some of the following can be 
made when the above cannot, I give a few otliers known to 
be valuable. The first one is from Dr. Downer, of Dixboro, 
within six miles of our city ] he used it in a ease where a 
boy fell backwards into a tub of hot water, scalding the 
whole buttock, thighs, and privates, making a bad scald in a 
bad place, but he succeeded in bringing him successfully 
through, and from its containing opium, it might be prefer- 
able to the first in deep and very extensive burns, but in 
that case the opium might be added to the first. It is aa 
follows : 

2. Dr. Downer's Salye for Burns. — Beeswax 4 ozs. ; opium 
} 02. ; sugar of lead 1 oz. ; m^lt the beeswax, and rub the lead 



MEDICAL DEPARTMEHT. Ill 

ap in the wax, then the opium ; and finally add about a gill of 
Bweet oil, or sufficient to make a salve of proper consisteoce. 

JSpreaa nghtiy on cloth — no pain, he says, will be felt 
under its use. He highly recommends it for the pain and 
inflamation of PileSj also. 

8. lr*ouLTiCE FOK BuKNS AND FROZEN Flesh. — A. Bronson, 
of Meadviile, Pa., says, ft'om 15 years' experience, that Indian 
meal poultices covered with young hyson tea, moislened with 
hut water, and laid over burns or frozen parts, as hot as can he 
borne, will relieve the pahi in 5 minutes, and that blisters, h 
tney have not, will not arise, and that one poultice is usually 
sufflwent. 

4. Balve for Burns. — Beeswax, Burgundy pitch, white 
pine pitch, and rosin, of each J lb. ; mutton tallow i lb. ; goose 
oil 1 gill ; tar J- gill, mixed and melted together, and used a3 
other salves. 

This was used successfully on a very bad case, burned all 
over the face, neck, breast, bowels, &c., soothing and quiet- 
ing pain, giving re.st and sleep directly. 

5. Garden and Kitchen Sata^e for Burns and Frost 
Bites. — Liveforever and sweet clover leaves, camomile and 
Bweet elder, the inner bark, a handful of each ; simmer them in 
fresh butter and mutton tallow, of each ^ lb. ; when crisped, 
strain out and add 2 or 3 ozs. of beeswax to form a salve. 
Spread very thin on thin cloth. 

Mrs. Miller, of Macon, Mich., cured a bad case with this, 
burned by the clothes taking fire, nearly destroying the 
whole surface. She speaks of it in equal praise for cuts and 
frost-bites. See the Green Ointment also for Chilblains. 

6. The white of an egg beat up, then beat for a long 
time with ^ table-spoon of lard, until a little water separates 
from thejD^ I have found good for burns. 

7. The white oxide of bismuth, rubbed up in r little 
lard, is also a good application in burns. 

8. Glycerine and tannin, equal weights, rubbed together 
mto an ointment, is very highly recommended for sore or 
cracked nipples. See Dr. Raymond^s statement in eonnec- 
don with the treatment of Piles. 

ITCHING FEET FROM FROST BITES,>-To Cure.— 

Take hydrochloric acid 1 oz. ; rain water 7 ozs. ; wash the feet 
with it 2 or B times daily, or wet the socks with tie preparation, 
ttntil relieved. 



112 DIl. CHASES RECIPES. 

A gentleman whose feet liad been frozen, in the A.lps, 
eigliv years before, and another man s had been irozen two 
years before, on the Sierra-Nevada mountains, were effectu- 
ally .^ured by its use. 

CHILBL AIXS,— To Cure.— Published by Order of the 
Government of Wirtemburg. — Mutton tallow and lard of 
each % lb. ; melt m an iron vessel and add hydrated oxyde of 
iron 2 oz. ; stirring continually with an iron spoon, im:il Ihe 
mass IS of an untform black color; then let it cool and add 
Vcnice-turpentme 2 oz. : and Armv^nian bole 1 oz. ; oil ot bur- 
gamot 1 dr. ; rub up the bole with a little olive oil befoie 
putting it in. 

'App'y severa times daily by putting it upon lint or linen 
—heals the worst eases in a few days *- 

Chilblain* arise from a severe cold to the part, causing 

inflammation, often ulcerating, making deep, and very 

troublesome, long continued sores. 

FELONS,— If Recent, to Cure in Six Hours. —Venice 
turpentine 1 oz., and put into it half a tea-spoon of water and 
stir with a rough stick until the mass looks like candied hon- 
ey, then spread a good coat on a cloth and wrap around the 
linger. If the case is only recent, it will remove the pam iiv 
hours 

2 A poke root poultice on a felon cures by absor])tion, 
unless matter is already formed ; if it is, it soon brings it to a 
head, and thus saves much pam and suffering. 

3 Blue flag and hellebore roots, equal parts, boiled in milk 
and water, then soak the felon in it for twenty minutes, as 
hot as can be borne, and bind the roots on the parts for one 
hour, has cured many felons, when commenced m time. 

4 A poultice of clay, from an old log house, made and 

kept wet with spirits ol camphor, is also good. 

T). Felon Ointment.— Take sweet oil J^ pt., and stev/ a 3 
cent plu^ of tobacco in it until the tobacco is crisped ; then 
squeeze it out and add red lead 1 oz., and boil until black; 
when a little cool, add pulverized camphor gum 1 oz. 

Mrs. Jordan, of Clyde, O., paid ten dollars for tins recipe, 
ana has cured many bad felons, as well as fellows, wath it. 
JJad feilo\vs because they did not pay lier. Certainly, this is 
ti ratiorial asc of tobacco. 

6. Felon Salvf.— A salve made by burning one table- 
spoon of copperas, then pulverizing it and mixing w^itli the' 
yolk of aa egg, is said to relieve ihe pam, and cure the felow 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 113 

in twenty-four hours ; then heal with cream two pai-ts, and 
soft soap one part. Apply the healing salve daily aftor 
soaking the part in warm water. 

DEAFNESS. — If Recent, to Cure — If Not, to Relieve.— 

Hen's oil 1 gill ; and a single handful of the sweet clover raisea 
in gardens; stew it in the oil until the juice is ali out, strain it 
and bottle for use. 

Where deafness is recent, it will be cured by putting 
three or four drops daily into the ear, but if of long stand- 
ing, much relief will be obtained if continued a sufficicut 
length of time. 

2. Much has been said in France about sulphuric ether, 
first tried by Madam Cleret, of Paris ; and, although she 
lost her reason by the elation of feeling brought on^ no 
doubt, by the honor given her for the discovery, yet the 
continued trial of the article does not give the satisfaction 
which had been hoped for, from its first success. 

WARTS AND CORNS.— To Cure in Ten Minutes.— Take 
a small piece of potash and let it stand in the open air until it 
slocks, then thicken it to a paste with pulverized gum arable, 
which prevents it from spreading where it is not wanted. 

Pare off the seeds of the wart or the dead skin of the 
corn, and apply the paste, and let it remain on ten minutes; 
wash off, and soak the place in sharp vinegar or sweet oil, 
either of which will neutralize the alkali. Now do not jam 
nor squeeze out the wart or corn, like " street-corner ped- 
lers,^^ but leave them alone, and nature will remove them 
without danger of taking cold, as would be if a sore is made 
by pinching them out. Corns are caused by pressure ; in 
most cases removing the pressure cures the corn. Nine of 
every ten corns can be cured by using twice, daily, upon it, 
any good liniment, and wearing loose shoes or boots. See 
Good Samaritan. 

2. Cure for Corns. — If a cripple will take a lemon, cat 
off a piece, then nick it so as to let in the toe with the corn, 
the pulp next the corn — tie this on at night, so that it can- 
not move — he will find next morning that^ with a blunt 
knife, the corn will come away to a great extent. Two or 
thiee applications of this will make a " poor cripple^' happy 
for life. — London Field, 

DR. chase's recipes. 



114 DR. chase's recipes. 

8 Acetic Acid, touched to hard or soft corns, night and 
moriiing, for une week, will cure them. So will the Samar 
ttan liniment, which see. 

4. Dr. Harimaiv's Innocent and Sure Cure for Corns, 
Warts and Chilblains. — Nitric and muriatic acids, blue vitriol, 
and salts of tartar, of each 1 oz. ; add the blue vitriol, pulver- 
ized, to either of the acids, and in the same Tvay add the sails 
of tartar ; when done foaming, add the other acid, and in a few 
days it will be fit for use. 

Directions. — For frosted feet, rub them with a swab or 
brush, wet with this solution very lightly, every part that 
is red and dry ; in a day or two, if not cured, apply again 
as before. For corns, apply in like manner, scraping off 
dead skin before using. For warts, wet once a week until 
they disappear, which will be soon, for it is a certain cure 
in all the above eases, and very cheap. So says the Doctor, 
of Anderson, Ind. 

5. A gentleman in Ohio offers to pay ten dollars a-piece 
for all corns not cured in three days by binding a bit of 
cotton batting upon it, and wetting it three times a day 
with spirits of turpentine. 

6. I am assured by agentleman-of Syracuse, N. Y., that a 
plaster of the '^ Green Mountain Salve,'' put upon a corn, 
will completely cure it by the time it naturally comes off. 

LINIMENTS. — Good Samaritan— Improved. — Take 98 per 
cent, alcohol 2 qts., and add to it the following articles : Oils of 
sassafras, hemlock, spirits of turpentine, tinctures of cayenoe, 
catechu, guaicaci, (guac,) and laudanum, of each 1 oz. ; tincture 
of myrrh 4 ozs. ; oil of origanum 2 ozs. ; oil of wintergreen ^ oz. ; 
gum camphor 2 ozs. ; and chloroform 1^ ozs. 

I have used the above liniment over ^^ve years, and can- 
not speak too highly of its value; I have cured myself of 
two severe attacks of rheumatism with it, the first in the 
knee and the last in the shoulder, three years after ; my 
wife has cured two corns on the toes with it, by wetting 
them twice daily for a few days; and it is hard to think of 
anything which it has not cured, such as sprains, bruises, 
cuts, jams, rheumatism, weak back, reducing swclliugs, 
curing leg-ache in children from ovcr-pkying, for horse- 
flesh, &c., &c. But you will allow me one remark about 
liniments — they ought in all cases to be put on -Mi^i rubbed 



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MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 115 



in from twenty to thirty minutes, and laying the hand on 
the part until it barns from its effects, instead of one or two 
minutes, as is the usual custom ; and if made by the quart, 
you can use them freely, as the cost is not more than about 
one-eighth as much as to purchase the two shilling bottles. 
Wetting fiannel with the liniment, and binding on, is a good 
manner of application. Dr. Hale, of this city, has adopted 
this liniment for general use ; but for headache and neural- 
gia, he takes eight ounces of it and adds an ounce of chlo- 
roform, and half an ounce of oil of wintergreen, rubbing 
upon the head, holding to the nostrils, &c. The full pre- 
eription will usually cost about two dollars. 

2. LiNoiENT FOR Old Sores.- -Alcohol 1 qt. ; aqua ammonia 
4 ozs. ; oil of origanum 2 ozs. ; camplior gum 2 ozs. ; opium 2 
ozs. ; gum myrrh 2 ozs. ; common salt 2 table-spoons. Mix, and 
shake occasionally for a week. 

This was presented for insertion by 11. Loomis, of Ed- 
wardsburg, Mich., hoping it might do many others as much 
good as it had done himself and neighbors. He showed me 
scars of an old sore on his leg which he had cured with it, 
after years of suffering; and also called '^p a young man 
whose father he had cured of a similar sore, years before, 
which had never broken out again; he used it twice daily. 
His leg became sore after a protracted fever, I have great 
contidence in it. He uses it also for cuts, bruises, horse- 
9esh, inflammatory rheumatism, &c., &c. 

3. Dr. Ratmoki^'s Liniment. — Alcohol 1 qt. ; oils of origa- 
num 2 ozs., and wormwood 1 oz. ; with camphor gum 2 ozs. ; 
spirits of turpentine 2 ozs. ; and tincture of cantharides 1 oz. 
Mixed, and used as other liniments. 

Dr. D. W. Raymond, of Conneaut, 0,, thinks that the 
last is the best liniment in the world. 

4. German Rheumatic Fluid. — Oils of hemlock and cedar, 
of each ^ oz. ; oils of origcinum and sassafras, each 1 oz. ; aqua 
ammonia 1 oz. ; capsicum, pulverized, 1 oz. ; spirits of turpen- 
tine and gum camphor, each i oz. ; put all into a quart bottlo 
and fill with 95 per cent, alcohol. 

The Germans speak equally in praise of this fluid, as a 
liniment, as Dr. Raymond does of his, beside?; they say it is 
very valuable for cholic in man or horse. Dose. — For choiic. 
for man, half a tea-spoon ; for a horse, one-half to one ounce 
wa a little warm water, every fifteen minutes, until reliaved. 



116 DR. chase's recipes. 

A gentleman purchased a horse for seventy-five dollars, 
which had been strained in one of the fetlocks, worth before 
the strain one hundred and twenty-five dollars. He cured 
him with this liniment, and sold him for the original value. 
He cured his wife also of neuralgia, with the same, since I 
have published this recipe. Judge ye of its value. 

5. Cook's Electro-^Magnetic Lintiment. — Best alcohol 1 gal. t 
oil of amber 8 ozs. ; gum camphor 8 ozs. ; castile soap, shaved 
fine, 2 ozs. ; beefs gall 4 ozs. ; ammonia 3 F.'s strong, 12 ozs. ; 
mix, and shake occasionally for 12 hours, and it is fit for use. 

This will be found a strong and valuable liniment, and also 
cheap. It may be used in swellings, strains, &c., and 
rubbed upon the throat, breast, and lungs, in asthma, sore 
throat, &c. 

6. Liniment for Spinal Affections. — Take a pt. bottle and 
put into it oil of origanum, w^orm^vood, spirits of turpentine, and 
gum camphor, of each 1 oz., and fill it with best alcohol. 

Mr. Barr, a gentleman with whom I have been acquainted 
for some four years, has been troubled with spinal weakness 
and pains, and he finds great relief from the use of this lini- 
ment ; and his daughter took it internally for a cough also, 
with success. 

7. Great London Liniment. — Take chloroform, olive oil, and 
aqua ammonia, of each, 1 oz. ; acetate of morphia, 10 grs. Mix, 
and use as other liniments. Very valuable. 

8. Gum Liniment. — Take gum myrrh, gum camphor, and gum 
opium, of each, i oz- ; cayenne pepper ^ oz. ; alcohol 1 pt. ; mix. 

This liniment is ready for use in three or four days, and 
is very highly recommended by E. Burrows, of Matamora 
Lapeer Co., Mich. He prefers rum, if a good article can 
be got, in place of the alcohol. This would be excellent in 
cholic, or diarrhea also. 

9. Patent Liniment. — In order that those who purchase 
the patent liniments may know what they are buying, I give 
a formula, from which over twelve-thousand dollars worth 
of liniment was sold in two years' time, but one of the 
partners going out of the firm, and into the livery-business, 
gave me the plan as follows : 

Take whisky 15 gals. ; and put into it 2 lbs. of capsicum, pul- 
verized, let stand 10 days and percolate, or draw ofi the whisky, 
free of the sediment ; in the mean time take 1 gal. of spiiits of tur- 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 117 

p«iftt5!ie and put into it oils of origanum, horse-mint, sassafras, 
%)>i i hemlock, 6 ozs. each ; add gum camphor 2 lbs. ilix and iti 
^ eady to sell, for the purpose of gulling those who suppose 
've-rybody to be honest because they are the^riselves so. 

But that no loss may arise from the space this liniment 
\ecipe occupies here, I will tell you how to make a good lini- 
aieut, by using a part of that with the following : 

Take of the patent liniment 8 ozs. ; sweet oil and oils of criga- 
Qum, sassafras and aqua ammonia, of each 2 ozs., and mix, shak- 
ing well as used, and this mixture will make a splendid horse 
liiiiment, with which you can easily blister, by bandaging the 
part, if desired, and wetting the bandage with it. 

I'he first would cost less than $1.00 per gallon, whilst the 
retail price, two shillings per bottle, makes it over $2.00 per 
quart. See where your money goes. 

10. Lobelia and Cayenne Liniment.— Take a quart bottle 
ana put into it J- oz. of cayenne, pulverized, then put in 2 ozs. of lo- 
belia herb, and fill up the bottle with whisky ; in two weeks it 
is leady for use, and applicable for cuts, bruises, strains, sprains, 
&c, ; and it will heal cork cuts in the feet of oxen or horses, 
without stopping them from labor, and with but yery little 
joieness, by applying 2 or 3 times daily. 

i know a gentleman who had a gash cut in his scalp, four 
inches in length, and to the scull in depth, by a falling limb, 
which by the use of this liniment only, as strange as it may 
appear, it healed without pain or soreness. But some may 
object to it as a whisky liniment. I admit it to be such, but 
by knowing how to make it yourselves, you get it for a 
whisky price, and if it be not found as good as one-half of 
the two-shiliing-a-bottle liniments, then you may tell me that 
I do not know when I have a good thing. 

11. Liniment — Said to be St. John's. — For 70 doz. bottles, 
take spirits of turpentine and seneca oils, of each, 4 gals. ; lin- 
eeed or sweet oil, 2 gals. ; oils of origanum, hemlock, juniper, 
fcmber, and laudanum, of each, 3 qts. ; spirits of ammonia 1 qt. ; 
tincture of arnica 2 gals. ; camphor gum 1 lb. Put all into a 
keg and shake well ; when you wish to fill into small bottles, 
shake it well and draw into a convenient bottle or pitcher to 
pour from; and shake it well every time you fill 5 bottles; and' 
shake the bottle whenever you use the liniment ; thus it might 
be called Shaking Liniment. No matter w^hat you call it, how- 
ever, it is a good one. 

I obtained the recipe of a young gentleman who worked 
m Mr. St. John^s store over a year, yet much care was taken 



118 Da. chase's recipes. 

to prevent the knowledge of its exact composition from being 
found out by assistants ; it is a well known fact, however, 
that an observing mind can learn much, although not ex 
pressed in words. Perhaps he w^ill blame me for publishing 
information gained in that way, but I obtain knovfledge foi 
the benefit of the people ; and as I have called on the Doc- 
tor two different times, to sell my work, but could not suc- 
ceed, I do not feel under any special obligations to him, and 
if I did, I go in for the greatest good to the greatest number 
Were it not so, I should not publish much that is contained 
in this work, for there are many persons who have and are 
making fortunes out of single recipes, now published for tho 
benefit of the world. 

Because I could not sell my Recipes to I. L. St. John, a 
Druggist of Tifiin, 0., however, is not saying thai I do not 
sell them to Druggists generally, as I do. In Aurora, 111., 
I sold to six, and in Pomeroy, 0., to seven, every one in 
either place, which is not common. They are, however, not 
only anxious to obtain information generally, but also willing 
to impart it to others; and how Mr. St. John should have 
obtained as good recipes as the ones here attributed to him, 
without sometime having bought, is a little surprising ; for, 
as a general rule, those who put out ^' Patent Medicines/' 
are not themselves the originators of the recipes ; even Dr. 
Jayne is reported, I know not how truly, to have picked up 
the recipe, in an out-house, for his celebrated Alterative, J 
say, then, am I not justified in publishing these recipes ? 
Nay, more ! am I not honorable in thus benefiting the peo- 
ple ? I rest the matter with them ; always wiUing to abide 
their decision. 

Persons only wishing to put up for their own use, will 
take one-seventieth of the various amounts, which will be 
about as follows : 

^ Turpentine and seneca oils, of each 7J- ozs. ; sweet oil and 
iincture of arnica, of each 3|- ozs. ; oils of origanum, hemlock, 
juniper, amber, and laudanum, of each 1^ ozs. ; spirits of ammo 
nia i oz. ; and gum camphor J oz. ; which makes a little less 
than 1 qt., there being 64 qts., besides the gum camphor, in the 
v/hole amount. 

This calculation will be sufficiently near for all practical 
purposes. 

I have sold the condition powder and liniment; out of the 



MKDICAL DEPARTMilNT. 119 

-'irng 8torr, made bj the Doctor, wliich lias always given 
jl^ood satisfaction. And I think any one who trijs both will 
be as well pleased with those made from these recipes as 
with that which is sent out from Ti^n, and make iti for one- 
Fourth the cost of the other. 

COD LIVER OIL — Made PAiiATABLE akd moke Digesti- 
blp:. — To each bottle, add fine table salt 1 oz. Mix well. 

By this very simple plan cod liver oil has its peculiar un- 
pleasantness overcome, as well as made far more easy for the 
stomach to dispose of. But even with this improvement, I 
do not consider a table-spoon of it equal, for consumption, to 
a glass of rich, sweet cream, with a tea-spoon of best brandy 
in it, to be drank at each meal. 

CONSUMPTIVES.— Syrup Very Successful.— Take tam- 
arack bark, without rossing, (the moss may be brushed ofi,) 1 
pet*k; spikenard root ^Ib. ; dandelion root ^ lb.; hops 2 ozs. 
Boil these sufficiently to get the strength, in 2 or 3 gals, of water, 
strain and boil down to 1 gal. ; when blood w^arm add 3 lbs. oi 
noney and 3 pts. of best brandy; bottle, and keep in a cool 
place. Dose — A wine-glass or a little less, as the stomach will 
bear, 3 or 4 times daily, before meals and at bed time. 

Consumption may justly be called the King of diseases, 
but he has, many times, been obliged to haul down his col- 
ors, and give place to health, and consequent happiness, when 
he came in contact with the above syrup. It does not, how- 
ever, contain any of the articles usually put into syrups for 
this disease — this of itself ought to obtain for it a considera- 
tion. I have been told, and that by a professional man, that 
there was not an article in it of any value for consumption. 
I have acknowledged it does not contain any articles com- 
moidij used for that disease \ but allow me to ask if they 
cure the disease in one case out of a hundred ? The answer 
is. No. I am now using this on a case within a few miles of 
the city, who had called one of our Professors. He promised 
benefit, and did benefit about one week ; subsequently, two 
other physicians were also called without any lasting benefit. 
He had not cut his wood for nearly a year, nor done other 
labor to any extent ; he has now taken our syrup nearly three 
Qi<!)nths; he was weak, spare in flesh, and coughed very 
much, with cold feet and surface ] he is now stout, fleshy, 
<uid scarcely any cough ; surface and feet warm. What 



120 DE. CHASE'S RECIPES. 

more could be asked ? Yet lie is very careless, for I callea 
on him on a cold, snowy day lately, and he was in the woods, 
for wood. Do I need better proof of its value ? No one 
would expect sickness of the stomach to arise from its use, 
from the articles of which it is composed, but the first dose 
usually makes the person rather sick at the stomach, and 
sometimes vomits, but don^t fear to continue its use. i had 
rather trust to tamarack-bark tea than three-fourths of the 
consumptive syrups of the day. Let every one who is adiict 
ed with cough, be careful to avoid exposure as much as pos- 
sible. Remember, with this syrup ^ or disease^ as long as 
there is life, there is hope. 

But it would be deceptive and wicked to hold out to a 7 
consumptives the idea that they could be cured — -facts 
speak like this, although I have never seen it in print, nor 
heard the remark, but my own observation says that nino 
of every ten hereditary consumptives, will, in the end, di^ 
of the disease, while an equal number of those whose di-v 
ease is brought on by colds being neglected, or from neglect 
of acute inflammations, &c., may be cured. Then those 
who know their parents or others in their family to have 
gone with this disease, need hardly expect a cure, notwith- 
standing much benefit may be derived from care^ with fche> 
above treatment, good diet, and out-of-door exercise, while 
those whose systems are not tainted from parents may ex- 
pect a permanent cure. 

I shall now throw in a few thoughts of my own, and from 
the experience of many others in the profession, whi^h I 
hope may benefit all, needing light on the subject. 

First, then — Do not go South, to smother and die ] hat 
go North, for cool, fresh air, hunt, fish, and eat freely cf 
the roasted game ; cast away care, after having trusted all in 
Christ, that it may be well, living or dying. Take a healthy, 
faithful friend with you, to lean upon when needed, in your 
rambles. So shall it be well with many who would otiJcr- 
wise sink to the consumptive^s grave. Have your potatoes 
with you, and roast them in the embers ; your corn meal 
also, which you will mix with cold water, having a little said 
in it, and bake on a board before the fire, and then say you 
cannot make out a good-flavored meal, and a health) one 
also, from your roast venuon^ or broiled Jishj with roast pota- 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 121 

toes and johnni/-c3ike, I will then acknowledge that you are 
in'ioed far gone on the consumptive^s track, and especially if 
you have been wandering over hills and through the valleys 
of our northern country in pursuit of the game of which you 
axe about to partake. 

Secondly — Do not leave home after having tried every- 
thing else in vain, and just ready to wrap the mantle of the 
grave around you ; then you need all the care of many 
friends, and a quiet place to die ; but strike out the first 
thing when you become certain that permanent disease has 
fastened upon the lungs ; then you may not only reasonably 
expect a cure, but be almost certain. Have the means with 
you to avoid getting wet by rains ; but often wash and rub the 
whole surface, wearing flannel next the skin, and clothe 
yourself according to the weather and sex ; for there is no 
reason why females should not pursue about the same course. 
They can dress a la Bloomer^ and with their father, hus- 
band, brother, »or other knoioii friend, derive the same bene- 
fit from out-door exercise, like field or forest rambles^ botan- 
ical huntings, geological surveys, or whatever spf*rts or 
realities may give just the amount of exercise not to fatigue 
the invalid. 

For females who have families and cannot leave them, 
gtirdeninp will be the best substitute for the travel, or of all 
the employments which can be engaged in. 

Lastly — Those who are already far down the consump- 
tive track and confined at home, will derive much benefit by 
using, at each meal, half a pint of rich, fresh cream. In all 
cases it is ahead of Cod-Liver Oil, with none of its disagreea- 
bleness. And if it can be borne, a tea, to a table-spoon of 
the best brandy may be added. 

Much is being said, now-a-days, about the necessity of 
constant inflation of the lungs by long-drawn breaths, hold- 
ing the breath, also, as lOng as possible, when thus fully 
inflated; but, for those whose lungs are extensively diseased, 
it is not only useless, but very dangerous, from the liability 
to burst blood-vessels in the lungs, causing haemorrhage, if 
not instant death. In the commencement of the disease, 
however, or for those in health, the practice is decidedly 
good. 

2. Half a pint of new milk, wit*^ a wine-glass of expressed 



122 DR. chase's EECIPS8. 

juice of green hoarhound, each morning for a month, i?^ 
said to have worked wonders in relieving the soreness iji' tht 
liingSj and giving tone to the general health in this di.^east 

3. Chlorate of Potash, for Consumption —A gen 
tleman of Iowa read a paper about a year ago before the 
" American Medical Association/' upon the subject of Chlc^ 
rate of Potash in Consumption, giving the history of a fe^ 
cases only. For the want of a more extended trial oi' ii 
the Association thought best not to publish his paper but 
referred it back to him, and to the consideration of th(-M)*hei 
members for further test. 

Amongst those members is Dr. A. B. Palmer, of this city 
one of the Vice-Presidents of the Association, and Profo- 
sor of " Practice, Materia Medica,'* A^.c, in the [Jniversit\ 
of Michigan, at Ann Arbor — by the way, a gcutienmu and 
a scholar. Having had much experience in practice, he sa\^ 
fit to give it a trial. He has used it m about thirty cases, 
and with a single exception with marked success ; and in 
that case there was at first much improvement, but the pa- 
tient was a German who does not unders.<ind our language 
Very well, and from this fact when he fou^-d that it caused a 
heat or burning sensation in the stomach instead of going 
to the Professor and having the quantity U»ssened, he aban- 
doned it altogether. But through Prof. Pa.mer's kindness I 
have been permitted to refer to other ca^es where a verj 
marked amelioration has taken place. One ^f these, a n»ar 
ried lady, although her lungs were full of tubercles, with 
mu4i coughing, soreness of the lungs, with sh^rp pains upon 
full breaths being taken, &c., finds her cough A/)ose, soreness 
all gone, and that full breaths can be taken without pain, 
(or stitching, as commonly called,) and fully beUeves that if 
she could have had this prescription early in the disease, she 
would now have been well, yet derives much reh'^f from its 
use. Another lady has been using it only a few months, 
and finds that her symptoms are all very much reh*ived, and 
she has gained seventeen pounds in flesh. 

The Professor assures me that in the first few cas^s where 
he prescribed the chlorate^ the benefits were so marked, it 
was really astonishing ; which, of course, caused him to pt) 
on in its use, until, as before remarked, about thirty easi55 
have been more or less benefitted by its lose, under hif^ care. 



MEDICAL DEPARTiMENT. 123 

^fis method of giving it is to put about a tea-spoon of the 
cDU»rate into a glass of water, which is to be dfank a little at 
a time, in from six to tweuty-four hours, with other appro- 
priate treatment. 

H in an-y ease the chlorate should cause a heat or burning 
sensadon at the stomach, lessen the quantity ; and unless 
this does occur, no apprehensions need be felt in using it 
it improves the general symptoms, lessening the pulse, &c., 
whilst the Cod-Liver Oil has never done anything more than 
to benefit merely as food ; and from its very disgusting smell 
and taste, and the almost impossibility of keeping it upon 
the stomach, I greatly prefer the fresh sweet cream men- 
doned above, or the fat meat, as mentioned below. 

The hyper-phosphites have been extensively used, but 
I'rof, Palmer tells me that in Paris and other parts of Eu- 
rope, where he traveled during the past summer, that not 
one V/cll authenticated case of cure by them can be pro- 
duced. Bet he feels much encouraged to hope that tha 
chlorate will prove itself worthy of great confidence. 

The above was written one year ago; and the reports 
coming in since then, both in America and from Europe, 
more than confirms the exjyectcd benefits and hoped-for ad- 
7antages from the use of the chlorate in this disease. 

4. Remarls OxN the Use of Fat Meats — Preventive 
)F Consumption. — There is so much said against the use of 
fat meats, and especially pork, as an article of diet, that I 
3<'»nnot better close my remarks upon this subject than by 
giving the opposite opinions of those in high places, corro- 
borated also by my own experience. 

Dr. Dixon, of the Scalpel, some time ago, asvsumed the 
position that " the use of oils would diminish the victims 
of consumption nine-tenths, and that that was the whole 
"■eoret of the use of Cod-Liver Oil, to take the place of fat 
cneats." 

Dr. Hooker^s observations on the use of fat meats, con 
lected with consumption, are as follows : 

" First — Of all persons between the ages of 15 and 22 years, 
more than one-fifth eat no fat meat. Second — Of prisons at 
the age of 45, all, excepting less tlum 1 in 50^ habitiuilly use fat 
meal. Third — Of persons who, between the ages of 15 and 22, 
avoid fat meat, a few acquire an appetite for It, and live to a 



124 DE. chase's RfeCIPES- 

good old age, while the greater portion die with phthesis (cc^- 
sumption,) before 35. Fourth — Of persons dying with phthesis 
between the ages of 12 and 45, nine-tenths, at least, have nevej 
used fat meats." 

'' Most individuals who avoid fat meat, also use little but 
t«r or oily gravies, though many compensate for this want 
in part, at least, by a free use of those articles, and also milk, 
eggs, and various saccharine substances. But they consti« 
lute an imperfect substitute for fat meat, without which. 
Booner or later, the body is almost sure to show the effecta 
of deficient calorification/' 

A lady-lecturer recently said in this city, in one of he! 
lectures — " Set a piece o^ pork before a lady : oh, horrible \ 
the dirty, nasty, filthy stuff: give us chicken — clean, nice 
chicken. '' Now this lady, certainly, was no farmer's wife 
or she would have observed that the habits of chickens are 
ten times more filthy than that of the hog, if it be possible j 
for even the hog's leavings and droppings are carefully over- 
hauled by them, and much of it appropriated to '^ Ladies' 
meat." But their filthiness is no argument in either case ; 
for nature's strainer, (the stomach,) throws ofi" all impurities. 
Why do so many young ladies^ young clergymen^ and s^w- 
d.enU die of consumption % Simply because chicken or 
other lean meats, hot biscuit, &c., without exercise, make up 
the sums of their diet ; when, if they would eat fat meats, 
with bread not less than one day old, scrub floors, saw 
wood, or other arm exercise, according to sex, an hour at 
each end of each day, they might be spared for years — per- 
haps to long lives of usefulness, to their families, congrega- 
tions, or the world. 

5. So far ^s pork is concerned as food, the following rule 
may be safely followed : If it agrees with the stomach, 
which is known by its digesting without ^' Kisings," as it is 
called, its use may be continued, but if it rises, lessen the 
]uantity, and if it still rises, abandon its use altogether; but 
t digests better with me than mutton, or chicken, and 1 
have been trying them for nearly f/ti/ years. The same 
rule is good for all articles of food. As to exercise^ for 
men who are not regular laborers, wood-sawing is the best, 
next, horseback riding, then walking ; for women, hoemg 
in the garden or field, next sweeping, dusting, &o., tbt^ 
horseback riding, walking, &c. 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 125 

6. But I havtJ recently seen a piece going the rounds of 
1^3 papers as the best cure for consumption in the world, 
wnich contains so much good sense that I will close my re- 
marks on the subject by giving it a quotation, and let every 
one judge for themselves, which to try, if they see fit to 
give either a trial. It is represented as coming from an ex- 
change only, but from its style of remark, I think it must 
have started from HalFs Journal of Health : 

*' Eat all that the appetite requires of the most nourishing 
food, such as fresh beef, lamb, oysters, raw eggs, fruit, vegetables 
and 3 times a day take a glass of egg-nog, made as rich as the 
patient can bear. Avoid all other alcoholic drinks. Bathe twice 
a week in water made agreably warm, and in a warm room ; 
after bathing rub the body and limbs with sweet cream or sweet 
oil. Exercise daily in the open air ; walking is the best. Stand 
erect, exercise the arms and lungs freely, keep the mind cheer- 
ful ; take freely of the best cough syrup, and consumption will 
be a stranger to your household. 

'* For making the best cough svrup, take 1 oz. of thorouo-h- 
wort ; 1 oz. of slippery elm ; 1 oz. of stick licorice, and 1 oz%f 
flax seed; simmer together in 1 qt. of water until the stren<nh 
is entirely extracted. Strain carefully, add 1 pt. of best mokxs- 
ses and ^ lb. of loaf sugar ; simmer them all well together aiul 
when cold bottle tight. This is the cheapest, best, and safest 
medicine now or ever in use." 

" A few doses of one table-spoon at a time will alleviate 
the most distressing cough of the lungs, soothes and alla^g 
irritation, and if continued, subdues any tendency to con- 
sumption ; breaks up entirely the whooping cough, and no 
better remedy can be found for croup, asthma, bronchitis, 
and all aifections of the lungs and throat. Thousands of 
precious lives may be saved every year by this cheap and 
simple remedy, as well as thousands of dollars which would 
otherwise be spent in the purchase of nostrums which are 
both useless and dangerous/'— -^a:cAa??^e. For eg«--no^ 
see " Stimulant in Low Fevers.^' ^* ° 

OINTMENTS.—FoR Old Sokes.— Red precipitate i oz ; su 
pr of lead ioz. ; burnt alum 1 oz. ; white vitriol i oz, or a iittl 
le»8 ; all to be very linely pulverized ; have mutton tallow made 
warm i lb. ; stir all in, and stir until cool. 

^ Mr. Brownell, of Dowagiac, Mich., thinks there is no 
ointment equal to this for fever or any other old sores, from 
actual trial, as much so as Mr. Loomis does of his Liniment 
Wo. 2. 



126 DR. CHASr. S RECIPES. 

2. JuDKiNs' Ointment. — This ointment has been long 
celebrated through Ohio and the Eastern States. It was 
invented and put up bj an old Doctor of that name, whose 
family took to the profession of medicine as naturally as 
ducks to water. I obtained it of one of the sons, who is 
practicing at Malaga, Ohio, from whom I also obtained Lan- 
dolfi's and his own method of curing cancer, (see thoso re- 
cipes.) and he always uses this ointment to heal cancers and 
all other sores : 

Linseed-oil 1 pt. ; sweet oil 1 oz. ; and boil them in a kettle on 
coals for nearly 4 hours, as warm as you can ; then have pulver- 
ized and mixed, borax i oz. ; red lead 4 ozs,, and sugar of h^ad 
11 ozs. ; remove tlie kettle from the fire and thicken in the x>^vw- 
der ; continue the stirring until cooled to blood heat, then stir in 
\ oz. of spirits of turpentine ; and now take out a little, letting 
it ^et cold, and if not then sufficiently thick to spread upon thin, 
soft linen, as a salve, you will boil again until this poiat is 
reached. 

He says, aad I have no doubt of it, that it is good for all 
kinds of wounds, bruises, sores, burns, white swellings, rheu- 
matisms, ulcers, sore breasts, and even where there are 

^rounds on the inside, it has been used with advantage, by 

ippW^nt 1 plaster over the part. 

8. 8isson's Ointment. — Best brandy i pt. ; turpentine 1 gill ; 
camphor gum 1 oz. ; beefs gall i pt. ; (beefs gall bottled with i 
alcohol will keep nice for future use,) neats-foot oil 1 pt. Mix. 

This ointment, or properly liniment, is probably not equal 
ed for reducing swellings which arise from bad bruises, or 
swellings of long standing ; rub it in for quite a length of 
time, then wet a flannel in it and wrap around the parts. 

4. Grken Ointment. — White pine turpentine and lard i lb 
each ; honey and bees- wax i lb. each ; melt all together and stii 
in ^ oz. of very finely pulverized verdigris. 

In deep wounds and old sores this works admirably, it 
keeps out proud flesh and heals beyond all calculation, keep- 
ing up a healthy discharge. It was used on a horse, which 
had run upon a fence stake, the stake entering under the 
shoulder-blade and penetrating eighteen inches alongside of 
the ribs ; the ointment was introduced by stifi"ening linen 
cloth with warm beeswax, and rolling it up into what is 
called a teyi.tj then smearing the ointment upon the tent, and 
pushing it to the bottom of the wound, which kept the out- 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT, 127 

Bide from healing until it healed from the bottom, and thus 
saved the horse, which everybody said must die ; and oi 
course everybody always knows. The man owning the horse 
was thrown from his buggy whilst the horse was running 
and had a leg broken ; the horse wjis well before the man 
Hiram Sisson, an old farrier and farmer, of Crown Point 
Essex Co., N. Y., has used this and the one bearing his 
came, No. 3, several years, and speaks of them in the high- 
est terms. Mr. Wykoif, a few miles north of this city, has used 
this green ointment for several years, curing a deep cut in 
the thigh of a friend in a few days with it, which induced 
him to pay ten dollars to an English lady for the recipe; 
since then he cured a bad case of chilblains, with it, upon a 
German boy who had not worn boot or shoe for three years, 
on their account I have now known it for two years, curing 
cuts on horses' feet, from stepping over corn stubble iii 
spring ploughing, by only a few applications. It is worth 
more than the cost of this book to any family who has not 
got it. "^ 

This, mixed with equal parts of the '' Magnetic," No. 11, 
ana the world cannot beat it for general use. 

5. Green Ointment —Honey and bees-wax, each i lb. : spirits 
of turpentine 1 oz. ; wintergreea oil and laudanum, each 2 ozs • 
verdigris, Imelj- pulverized, J oz. ; lard H lbs ; mix by a stove 
nre, m a copper kettle, heating slowly. 

I have given this green ointment, varying somewhat 
from the first, obtained of a gentleman at Jamestown, N. 
Y., who was selling it in large quantities, as he uses the 
spirits of turpentine instead of the white pine, for that fre- 
quently is hard to get, and by some this will be preferred, 
for the flesh of a few persons will inflame under the free use 
of verdigris, and it will be seen that this last recipe has not 
near as much of it in as the first. 

6. Dr. Kittredge's Celebrated OksTment,— For " Pm- 
i>T£D-Face," " Prairie-Itch, c^c.-Take a pint bottle and put • 
in.o It nitric acid 1 oz. ; quicksilver 1 oz., and let stand until the 
silver IS cut ; then melt lard i lb. in an earthen bowl and mix all 
together, and atir with a wooden spatula until cold. 
^ Old Dr. Kittredge is an Allopathic Physician, but his 
ointment has been known, over the whole State, as death tc 
the '' Michigan or Prairie Itch,'* and the Doctor recommeiids 



128 DR. chase's recipes. 

it for Cancerous, Scrofulous, and Syphilitic Ulcers, also Salt, 
rheum, King- worms, '^ Pimpled Face/' Chronic Inflammation 
of the eyelids, &c. Application. — For cutaneous erup- 
tions, scratch off the scab, warm the cerate, rub in thorough- 
ly once a day ; for running ulcers, spread a thin plaster, and 
not change oftener than once in thirty-six or forty-eight 
hours. 

7. Mead's Salt-Rheum Ointment. — Aquafortis 1 oz. ; quick- 
silver 1 oz. ; good hard soap dissolved so as to mix readily 1 oz. ; 
prepared chalk 1 oz., mixed with 1 lb of lard ; incorporate the 
above by putting the aquafortis and quicksilver into an earthen 
vessel, and when done effervescing, mix with the other ingredi- 
ents, putting the chalk in last, and add a little spirits of turpen- 
tine, say i a table-spoon. 

Mr. Mead is a resident of this city, advanced in age, over 
ninety years, and great confidence may be placed in this re- 
cipe. He sent it for insertion in the seventh edition of this 
work, and nmny have tried it with satisfaction. He first 
proved it on himself, after suffering with Salt-rheum for ten 
years ; at first it came back after two years ; he then cured 
it again, and now has been free from it about fourteen years. 
His only object in presenting me the recipe was to do good 
to his fellow-creatures. Some physicians think that if nitric 
acid one ounce and three drachms, was put upon the quick- 
silver, and cut or dissolved by gentle heat, that it would be 
a better way to prepare it; but I never wish to change when 
an article works as well as this does. 

8. Dr. Gibson, of Jamestown, Pa., says he has never failed 
in curing salt-rheum or leprosy, (meaning very bad skin dis- 
eases) with the following : 

First, wash the part with Castile soap and water, dry with a 
soft cloth, then wet the parts erupted with the tincture of iodin«, 
and after this gets dry, anoint with citron ointment. When the 
eruption exists about parts not covered with clothing, use tho 
following wash alternately with the tincture : Corrosive subli- 
mate 1 dr. ; sugar of lead 3 ozs. ; white vitriol 2 scruples; sal- 
ammoniac 3 drs. ; common salt 2 drs. ; soft water 1 pt. ; mix. 

He had a case — a young gentleman who was engaged to 
be married, but the lady would not marry him until cured 
from the fact that a sore of a leprous or obstinate character 
surrounded his head where the hat came in contact with it. 
But patience and nine months perseverance removed the 
scab from his crown^ and crowned him with a help-meet 



MEDICAL DEPAaTMBNT. 12^ 

liCt mc here say, that in any disease of long standing, 
^e some of the alterative medicines to cleange the blood, 
f^hile using the outward applications. The " Cathartic Al- 
terarire'' is especially adapted to these skin diseases, and 
«houid be continued some time, even if you are not anxious 
to get married. The Citron Ointment is kept by nearly all 
Druf^gist^. 



"66* 



9. White lead in sweet oil, umd as an ointment, cured a 
lady in Lafayette, Ind., of a bad case of Salt-llheum. 

10. Itch OiNTiiENT.— Unsal ted butter 1 lb. ; Burgundy pitch 
2 07..; spirits of turpentine 2 ozs. ; red-precipitate, pulverized, 
U ozs. ; melt tlie pitch and add the butter, stirring well togetiior ; 
Uien reiQov^e from tlie lire, and when a little cool add the spirits 
ol turj)t Qtine, aad lastly the precipitate, and stir until cold. 

This will cure ail cases of psora, ur.ually called " Th^ 
Itch/' nnd many other skin eruptions, qjh pimples, blotches. 

Dr. Beach thinks the animal which infests the bkin, la 
real itch, is the result of the disease, whilst most authoi-s 
tl^ink it die cause. 

U. Magnetic Ointment.— Said to be Trask^s.— Lard, rai 
RJus, rut 111 pieces, and tine-cut tobacco, eqnal weights; simnies 
well together, then strain and press out all from tlie dregs. 

The above is an excellent ointment, and looks like its 
Eamesake, and it^ action is really magnetic. Mis this in 
equal parts with the first Green Ointment No. 4, and it will 
make a good application in Piles, Salt-Rheum, and all cuU- 
neons or ^kin diseases, as well as cuts, bruises, &c. If used 
m Salt-ltheum, some of the alterative remedies must be 
taKen at the same time, and lona: continued. 

12. SfRAxMONiuM Ointment— The probability is, that 
^or general use, no ointment will be found superior to this, 
.neu properly made. It is kept by most Druggists, but it is 
QMt half as good, generally, as if made by the following diree- 
tions. I give large proportions, from the fact that it will U 
used iu large quantities. Stramoriium is known bv tho 
nan^ci of '^ Jimpson/' ^' Stink-Weed,'' '^ Thorn^Apple,*^^ &c., 
from i^ thorny burr. 

Pi^h about a bushel of the leaves, while yet green, havino- ^ 
iKiltable iron kett)e placed over a slow fire ; put in a few of the 
l^ttvos and mash them as you keep addJn^ until yoo gst 

I -,.*50PY maun SECU«JKJ>. 



130 I>&. CHAS£'S E£Cn*£d. 

them all mashed into a pulpy mass, then put in lard 5 lbs., an^ 
stew to a crisp; then strain and box for use. Those who live in 
towns and prefer to make it with less trouble, will purchase 1 
dr. of llie soft extract, kept by tlniggists, rubbing it with a little 
water mail it is of such a consistence as to allow it to be ruhl>ed 
inio an ointment with lard 1 oz. This will be belter than tiie 
dale ointment, but not as good as the '' Home Made," a hove. 

It is anodyne, (relieves pain.) in burns, scalds, old irrita- 
ble ulcers, skin diseases, painhil hemorrhoids, (l^iles,) and 
is discutient, (driving away swellings.) and very strengthen- 
ing to broken limbs, i. e., after the bones are healed to rub 
over the limb freely, and thoroughly ; it reduces the swell- 
iDg and gives tone to the muscles, tendons, &e. 

We have recently known two eases of fracture, one a com- 
pound fracture of the ancle, the other of the wrist, both m 
persons well advanced in life ; in both cases strength re- 
turned very slow, but with double speed by the ^'yk^q ;^ppli- 
cution of this ointment; and in the first ease it undoubtttdly 
prevented mortification. It is valuable, also, in painful oi 
swelled rheuniatism. Or, perhaps what would be preferable, 
D such cases, is a tincture made of the seeds from the 
horny-burr, two ounces, to alcohol and water, of each, a 
half-pint. If it is not found ahead of {he " Tincture of 
Arnica,'* I will give you my head for a ^' Foot-Ball.'' In ap- 
plying it, wet cloths or brown paper, and bind upon the 
parts, keeping them well wet. To make this tincture, se^ 
** Tinctures.'' 

13. Toad OrxTMENT. — For sprains, strains, lame-hack, 
rheumatism, caked breasts, caked udders, &c., &c. 

Good sized live toads, 4 in number; put into boiling wnter 
and cook very sott ; ihen take thein out jind lM)il the water dowa 
to \ pt., aud adil fresh churned, unsalted butter 1 lb. and sim- 
mer together; at the last add tincture of arnica 2 ozs, 

Tliis was obtained from an old Thysician, who thought 
more of it than of any other prescription in his posses.sion. 
Some persons might think it hard on toads, but you co-xid 
not kill tliem quicker in any other way. 

JAl;Nr>lCE. — Dr. Peabody's Citur,— In its Woiist Fokms 
— Hed Iodide of mercury 7 grs. ; iodide of t)olassiu»' 1) sirs.: 
aoua dis. (distilled waier,) 1 oz. ; mix. Commeuce hy A^'ivnjg 6 
drops 3 or 4 times a day, increasing 1 drop a day unti*^! l'^. or .15 
drops are given at a dose^ Give in a Uule water immediii»i«l»' 



MXDICAL DEPAaTMJEHt. 13 1 

Kir?;t™1',M),/L!^.frr '^ ^f''"S sensation in the bowels, and 
k • ,!^f , ' "'^'"■='^' '^ "■" y^'\&'t up to 12 or 15 drops, go back 
to t, diops, ;tii.' v.n again as bcloie. '^ 

lu two very oa>] cases d jaundice, I have known the 
above to be entirely suceesslul. 

i am aware tliat many persons will not use any prcnara- 
fcon containing Uiercury in any of its (brnis, while liiere are 
Biauy others who would use them for that very reason ; my 
Object ,s to benefit a/l, without strengthening the prejudice, 
«t <r»y; for this reason I give you the following : 

2 DurNK Fon Jaundice.— Tie up soot and saffron cf-ual 
I«a.-is, i„ » clo.l. to the size or half ol' a Ik-m's Cirg, u" Tt ii<f h a 
|l..<,o( wa.i-r over nighi ; in tho morning put ihc- v . k of an 
p. beaten, into Ibis water, a.ui drink ii.'lJo th 1 3 n om nfrs 
ikippiag 3, until y Joses have l,eeu taken. mommas, 

1 am assured that it has proved successful in many bad 
rSfes '^ " ^""^ ^'*^^^°' ^'- ^''' '"''-^' *^« '^ouo 

Cream „ tartar, jalap pulverized, senna, and liowers S.Ti,^ 
I 07.. eaelj; nitrate of potash, (sail petre,)i „.„ ; golden La I oz 
tlivroughly pulverize all together, in a nu,rtar L. Igit-e a tea-' 
spoon ilm-e tunes every day, or the dose may be vaHe.^ to st^ 
the condition of the patient, taking more or lesl to sui c rcum 
Stances, keei)ing the bowels in a sofvent state. 

hnnTi"'T^'' ^^'•'•"CATroN.-Inner bark of the whfte oak tree 

tmi ven 'tl!l!:J""/, ^"" ^fT ""'" >'"" ^•'""'" * I't of tl.e ^: 
liacl, vey thick; then add i pt. of the oil of the oldest and 

or bleeding piles, in all cases, sooner or later. 

-.„?/i" •t".'!"' ""^ An-^ersontown, Ind.. has been very sue 
eessful with this plan of treating Piles ; and since I obtained 
the plan now two years, I liavc had one opportunity of 
rro^.ng Its efhc.ency, upon a gentleman who hlul I)een laid 
Pp for days, and sometimes weeks, with the complaint : br 
a ew applications of the external remedy he has been en- 
»Wed^to keep directly along with his labor. 

PW i 15'tr^''"ln!T;;r^''""'""'- '*■ "*" '^'"' * "'- - «"'Pl'-i'e of mor- 

ilkal'^annW •].''"'", "'"^"'^'"l ' <«. ; olive oil "iO drops. 

^^^ ^^^ ^"^ a dajr. or as occasioa aud poiu auy r* 



j,32 j>H.. cuABK'a jiBCiPJsa. 

' Thb cerate has been highly celebrated a9 a reined? in 
Piles It will relieve the pain most assuredly. Piles have 
been cured with lamp oil applied to the parts two or three 
times a day. Even tallow, or any simple omtment, is good 
for dry Piles, that Is, for pain in those parts, coming on 
.^ff,en ia the dead of night, without apparent cause. 

3 For Extkrnal Pims,— The fc>llowing is very highlj 
spoken of: Take ovster sheila, wash and burn them, then 
5nc!y pulverize and rub up with fresh lard ; annoiut witj 
this, and take internallv sulphur one ounce, mixed wiih 
three ounces of pulverized rosin ; take night and morning 
what will lay on a five cent piece. Take every day tor tne 
first week, then every three or four days, until well, contia- 
uing the ointment. 

4 Mrs Moeeuead.— Of Danville, Ind., cured herself 
of Piles by simply sitting in a hip-bath of warm water, 
evory time the pains would come on, after stools, or any 
other time, remaining in the bath until the pains left her 
Her husband cured himself by sitting in cold water, and 
u-in<r unon the parts an ointment made by stewing cclen- 
dine°in fresh lard. I give these various plans, so that it 
one fails, a remedy may certainly be found amongst the 
fliany given. 

5 G. P. RoQKES. of Ironton, 0., haa known cases cured 
oy usin<' the foUowinsi ointment: Powdered opium and pow- 
deved rosin, one ounce each, mixed with one ounce of tallow. 
%Dd anoint as required. 

6 Da D W. Raymond, of Conncaut, 0., says : Eriual 
wei<^ht3 of giycerine and tannin will cure Piles, by anointio« 
with it, and" that very speedily ; also cures sore or cracked 
nipples in twenty-four hours, and is remarkably good lor ■ 
any excoriation, or sore, of the skin. I know that simple' 
tallow introduced into the rectum is exceedingly benefaciali 
in Piles, which satisfies me that any preparauon containing? 
oil or any kind of grease, is good. 

7 I have found in the scrap of an old newspaper, thee 
following, and it is so easily tried, and speaks with so much^; 
certeinty, and is so simple, that I give it an insertion : 

" Simple Coke Foa Piles.— Mix one table-spoon of eul-i 
Hhvx «itk half a plat of milk, to be taken every day ucti- 



MJCDICAL OJEPABTMKNT, I^ 

favorable symptoms appear, and then occasionally, as the 
case may re(|uire. The al)uve is a cheap, simple, and most 
intallil^l^ cur« ibr that most painful ami unpleasant disonlcr. 
It has teen used with complete success in old and inveterate 
cases where individuals had spent scores of dollars in medi- 
cal advice. It is e({ually uselul as a preventive. It v\'iil 
injure none, and only re(|uires a trial.'' 

8. Paschal ^Iason, livins: near this city, cured a South 
ern lady, visiting in the neighborhood, who Wiis confined to 
tlie bed with them, by making a strong tea oi* the wild 
swamp-currant root, drinking occasionaiiy ibr a lew days 
only. 

9. JiMPSON Leaves and parsely, a handful of each, stew, 
ed in lard, one pound, and used as an ointment, has cured 
many cases. 

ANODVNES— Hoffman's Anodvxe, on Golden Tixctuue. 
—Suli)hnric elher 2 ozs. ; alcohol 4 o/.s. ; and elhcrial oil | dr. ; 
mix. l>osK— From half to two tea-spoons, (^ tlr. to 2 drs.) ac- 
cording to ilie urgency or pain tor which it is given. 

It is given in a little sweetened w^ater, and much prefer- 
red by ihe Germans to laudanum, especially where laudanum 
causes sickness of the stomach. It makes an excellent local 
ttpplieaiion in neuralgia and otiier painful affections, being 
Hccimd cousin to the Magnetic Tooth Cordial and l*aralytic 
Liniment. 

2. Laudanum.— Best Turkey opium 1 oz., Flice, and pour 
upon it boiling water 1 gill, and work it in a bowl or moriar until 
it lb dissolved ; then pour it into the l)ottle, and with alcohol ol 
•7t> |»er (!ent proof ^ pt., rinse the <lish, adding the alcr»hol lo the 
prO|Uiraiion, .shaking well, and in 24 honrs it will be rcadv tor 
use. Dose— From 10 to oO drops tor adnlts, according to the 
strcngTh otthe patient, or severity of the pain. 

I'hirty drops ol* this laudanum will be equal to one grain 
iof opium. And this is a much better way to prep-ire it than 
parting the opium into alcohol, or any other snirits alonC; 
t)r in that case much of the Of)iun] does not dissolve. Sea 
jtiic remarks oecuring after Godfrey's Cordial. 

I S. Paukoomic— t^est opium i dr., diss«»1ve it in al)ont 2 tal >- 
jSpo .n^ ot hnilinL' water; then add henz«»ie>ieitl .^ »lr. ; oil oraeise 
iM tiuid dr.; elanflel honey I oz. ; camphnr i^,,,,^ ] .neniple ; al- 
Cohni, Tc, ,HT cent, 11 tiuid ^»zh. ; distilled vvater A^ duid o/.s.; 
ima^rate, (keep warm,) for two weeks. Dosii^For chiidreu, I 
'to 20 drops, adults, 1 to 2 tea-spooas. 



Used as an anodyne and antispasmodic, May^ i^nyrh, re 
lieves nause:i and sli-ht pains in the sti.niaeh ai>d h(»\vek 
ohectks diarrhea. aiHJ' pnK'ures sleep. Usci prinripally tot 
children. See the remarks alter No. 5, below. 

4 I]\tkman's rKCTOUAL Duops.— Opium in powd •.^ -atechu 
in p(»W(U'r, eaniphor aum, red saunders, ras]>ed, of "--"h i o/.. ; 
oil of anise 1 dr.; dilute aleohol, (akoi.ol ot 76 per <-nt, liud 
^uur in e(iual propi)rUons,) 1 gal. Keep warm lor 2 nteks. 

Tlie opium strength ol* this is about e(|ual to parejro^'ie, and 
it is u.Ned lor similar purposes, and doses. See the nmiarks 
below. 

5 (;<M)Fi:ky s CoiiDiAL.— Dissolve pure carbonate of p-»«i?.su 1 
oz in water r, ips., and add nice uoldeii syiup or ht-si m.^bissea ■ 
Sips., and heal until they begin to simmer; take oti [\^^' ^<'''f^ 
and add laudanum 1» ozs., and oil ol sassatras 1 dr. JSiix veil. 
Used similar to liie two last. 

Kemarks.— Tt is a well known fact tl^at much injury ia 
done to children by the use ofauiidynes, such as tlie above, 
and '' xMrs. Winslow's Sooth int.- .Syrup/' which is m.w taknii^ 
the jdace, to a great extent, in towns of the rmv-oiji-, tbr 1 
noticed a short time a-o ei-lity-seven empty bottles wuh 
jMrs. Winslow's label upon tliem, sitting: on a cjunter ol one 
of our dru- stores, which led me to ask il* they jait up her 
syrup. 'J'he answer was no, a fa^/?/ in this city has led that 
much to one child within the past rif/hrren months. 

The question mi-lit be asked, why do you tell people how 
to make an^ oY these anodynes ? Because they are -ood m 
proper cases, when properly used, and to give a j)lai-e tor 
these remarks; tor those who are evil disp..sed will hno a 
way to accomplish their designs, whilst the well dis]M.sed 
will, or can, act only from knowledire, and if they do not, 
know the evils arising IVom the constant use ol an.HiynesoDL 
children, are as liable to do evil as the evil dis]M)sed. ^ ^ 

Theu let it be remembered that the constant use of oj-iuiuii 
in any of its preparations on children, or adults, disturbs thi!' 
nervous system, and establishes a nervous necessity l'i=r m 
cofitinuafion. 'J hen use them only in severe pam, or ex. 
tivme uervousne.^s, laying them by again jl^ soon as p..^sd»le 
uu.ler the circumstances o\' the case. Of course w»^ da not 
uive a reeeipe lor the Soothing Syrup spdken ol,as Us eyaet 
composition hab not yet come out W the public ; but that m 



MEDICAL DEPA&TMENT. 1S6 

wolhing properties are owing to opium, there is not the least 
dimhi. See *' Carminatives/' which are prelerable to opiates, 
espt^eiaJIy lor ciiildreu. 

T{ II K U M A T T S >r S— Tnfi.ammatoi?y KriEUMA'^TSM— Bill 
Whkjut s, AM> oTiiKK Cu liKs.— 8ulp|,ur and salt [,elru, of each 
I ;'Z. ; gum guaiac ^ oz. ; coU hicmii root, or seed, and nnlniegs 
M 'Mwlt i oz. ; all to he pulverized and mixed wiili simple synip 
or UK.lasses 2 oz. I)nsK— One lea-spoon every 2 hours unul it 
movfs liie bowels raUier freely; then S or 4 limes daily until 
cured. -^ 

^ Mr. Wri.oht, of the Niagara Hotel, Toledo, O., has several 
times proved this to be an excellent medicine, and since 1 
obtained it [ found a man at .Marshall, iMicli, one Saturday 
evening,', with bis leet and legs so swollen with this disease, 
that be could but just crawl with two crutches. 1 filled this 
pre«criptiou and gave bim a tea-spoon of it every two liours, 
until it moved his bowels, then evevy four hours, and on 
Monday noon he C(.uld walk <juite comtbrtably without cane 
or crutch, the medicine costing only twenty cents. 

2. KuKiJ.MATic Altkkativk.— In Kbeumatism of hug 
standing, the following preparation has o lie u proved very 
valuable: "^ 

I Colchi<;nm seed, and black cohosh root, of each i oz the root 
to be bruised ;lmst rve whisky 1 pi.; put togei her and V't stand 

I »i nr 4 (h'.ys. DosK— J^ rom one tea-spoon to a labie-spoon a limes, 
uaily, betore nuials. 

; The action will be to loosen the bowels, or cause a little 
jsicknessat the stomach ; and the dose may be modified not 
to cause too great an effect upou the patient either way, but 
iUrtreasHig the dose if necessary until one of these spe'cifio 
I actions IS felt, and icsseniug it if the action Is too oreut in 
I an) case. ^ 

la liuKUMATTC LrxniEXT.-~01ive oil gpirits of camphor, and 
:Chlo:(,t(,nn.<,teMdi2<.Z8.; sassafras oil 1 tea-s,>orm. First add 
tlu. oil o\ sassafras i<» the olive oil, ihen the si^jrits of camphor 
ami rnhake wHl belore jMiulMg in lb.- chloroform, shakii.ir when 
i>e.l. .it-epmg u eorkeil, as the chloroform evaporates verv Ikel 

Va^';or:rr^ r'^V' V''^ '^^^^^ daily,rubbmg it well, and al. 
,'<!»)>, knviirils Uio l»i>ily. 

\ < 1 had a l>r()tli„r-iii-!,iw cured of a vorv bad case of inrlam- 
•matory or.svvclliu- rlicuuiatis.u, by the use of this liuiujeut— 
•ccoiuplished xn about four days, witliout other treatujent 



1^ Da. OUASK's HECIPEa. 

He paid five dollars for the recipe after the cure. But i 
woiild recommend the use of this in connection with " Kill 
W'riehr's Cure/' above, feeling piM-fectlj u.<isured that no 
att;ick will stand befoie ihe internal and external cumoina- 
tion. 

4. J. r>. ITrTCTicox, Ypsilanti, "Mich., uses spirits of trrpentine 
1 pt. ; tar 2 tea-spoons; oil ot viiri(»l i tea-spoon, nux.ng in n 
ninij ; then swls tiieui on lire, letiing it burn 15 minutes, and bol- 
tie for use. 

lie bathes the parts freely twice daily with this prepara- 
tic Q, tlien binds on the nuisheJ tory-weed, as mentioned un- 
der the head of '* lieducin«j: SweliingSj'^ and gives a little 
spirits of turpentine internally. 

A. Alvah Uavmond — Takes Rum 1 pt.; neats-foot oil ^ pt. . 
or if the joint is still', skunk's oil iristead of the other; spirits oi . 
turpeniijie 1 gill, and siuunrrs thein together, and hollle for UbC, , 
rubbing it In llioroughly l> times daily. 

Uc also directs to soak the feet in hot wnter, scraping the > 
b('ttoms of the feet with an old kniie; then he has \Hi)i^f 
not roasted and mnslied, mixing with it tar and sul}duir ta / 
form drafts for the feet. With this method oi' treatment lie » 
assures me he has been very successful for oU years. And! 
it beais so strong a resemblatiee to Dr. Kittredge's prepara- • 
tJoti, next following, for stillened joints in rheumatism, that I 
it gives me double contidence in them both. 

•3. Dii. Kittkedgk's Uemki^y von Kiikitmattsm and SifFF' 
J '»INTS. — Strong camphor sj)irils 1 pt. ; iuats-i'<»ot. coon, bear, 
or skunk's oil I pt. ; spiiits of turpentine ^ pt. bhake the bottle 
wnen used, aiul ai>ply ;» times daily, by pouring on a little at a 
tiiue autl ru\)bing in all ycni can for 20 to oU minutes. 

The old Doctor recommcn<ls this as a sure cure for chronic 
rheumatism, sprains, stiti-joints wliere they have not Ibrmed 
an anchylosis, that is, if the bones have not actually growr 
together; and as remarked in connection with liis ointment; 
No. G, he has been a very celebrated Hiysieian for manyv 

{cars ; but like many other men with su|>erior minds, oil ! 
e»w fallen. Kum. and its advocates, have got a most i'ear 
ful account to balance. 

7 FiiKNcn AM) Other Remedies foi^ Curontc RnEX)- 
MATISM. — Dr. lionnet, of Graulbet, Frince, states in *. 
letter t-o the Abeille Medicalc, that he *' ha** been lon^ ice 
the habit of prescribinf? : 



HJKDICAL DEPARTMENT. 187 

••The essential aU of turpentine for frictions against rheuma- 
pm Ami that he has used ii himself with perfect success 
havuig almost insianluneously got rid of rheumatic pains in 
Dolij knees and in liie left shoulder." 

lie was led to make the prescription from having used the 
oil of turpentine to wash coal-tar and other stiekini^ niixtare« 
from his hands. After having washed his hands in si^ap 
and water, and drying them, a pricking seri'-ation like an 
electric spark upon the knuckles from a macliiue, lasting 
about two hours, was always experienced, and it is to thig 
exciting action that he attribute.^ if.s efficacy. It may be 
used twice or thrice daily. 

8. Chronic rheumatism has been cured in twcnfy-foui 
hours, alter two years' suffering, by using alcohol, spirits ot 
turpentine, sweet spirits of nitre, and oil of juniper, equal 
parts of each ; uiis j rub well into the parts, and take ten 
drops at bed time in water. 

r>rrTi:HS Fon CnnoMC Uiteumattsm.— Prickly-ash berries 
epikeiiard tool, yellow |)opiar a!)d dog-wood barks, ol each h lb • 
ail pulverized and put into a gallon jug, and till it up with bran- 
dv. i)(»sK— A wiue-glass of ii is to be taken a limes daily be- 
i<»re meals. "^ 

A baker of Lafayette, Ind., was cured by the use of this 
amount, of a very bad case of this disease of long standing'. 

10. David Mowky, of Greenville, Ohio, says yellow poplar 
dog-wood prickly-ash, wild cherry and while-ash barks of the 
trees equal quaniities of each, a good large hauiiful, boiled in 
^ gals. ()t water, to 1, and add 1 gal. of good old rve, will, if 
tuKen treely a tunes daily, cure the worst inliammatory rheuma- 
ituaar.! the world. ^ 

There is no fpiestion but what both of these preparations, 
and tiie next also, are good, if made sufficiently strong with 
[the barks. J]ut 1 should consider them much more appli- 
cable in chronic cases, or rheumatism of longstanding; and 
iin the.sc cases very applicable indeed, and 1 am welT satis- 
feed that no one will take them lor the spirits. 

11. Ciiuoxic lliiKUMATiSM, has been cured by taking 
ithe bark of a bearing crab-ap|de tree, and puttin^^^ a sulh^ 
cient amount of it into whisky to make it vert^ strong, then 
taking a wine-glass three times daily, until a gallon wa's used. 

12. Ghkkn Bay Indian's Remedy fok Rheumatism.— Wahoo, 
baik of ihe ruot, 1 oz. ; blood root 1 oz. ; black cohosh root 2 ozs. ; 



1^38 i>a- chase's ekcipm 

swamp belleboi-e * oz. ; prickly ash, bark or berries 1 oz ; F^ke 
root cut tire 1 oz. ; rye whisky 1 (it.; lei stand a tew days he- ^< 
fore using. DosE-One tea-spoon every 8 or 4 hours inerer.smg 
the dose to 2 or 3 tea-spo(nis, as tiie stomach will bear. 

Soak the feet well and go to bed, covering up warm, and 
takinc^ the '^ Sweating Drops'' between each dose, as tbere 
directlid, lor three or four hours, and repeat the sweating 
every day until the disease surrenders to the treatment. 11 
at any time the head feels too full or the stomach sickeuf 
too much, drop down to the first dose of a tea-spoon, or even 
less, if necessary. 

This prescription is from Jacob S. Cornehus, an Imiian 
of Green Bay, who was very successful in Illinois, with it, in 
this disease. 

13 I know an old physician who assures me tV.at he h^j 
cured cases where all otber remedies failed, with saltpetre, 
be<'-innin<]C with twenty grains, and doubling tlie dose evrry 
tl/n-e or four hours, until it reached half an ounce, in a v< rv 
robust and plethoric patient; but tliis dose would bemoi 
lar-e to venture upon by persons not of a plethi>ric lia oit 
But as it is mostly prescribed, by putting a table-spoon to a 
pint of whiskv, then a tea-spoon for a dose; you mi-ht aa i 
well expect to dip the Atlantic into the racitic with a tea-- 
spoon, as to cure rheumatism in that slow way. It may be 5 
Uikenin quantities from half an ounce to an ounce audi 
a half in the twenty-four hours, being largely diluted v^iib 
water If pain should come on in the stomach, under us 
use, stop it at once, and give large quantities of mucilagin nis; 
drinks, sucli as slippery-elm water, gum-arabic water, fiax- 
eeed tea, <fce. 

14 Nrw Rfmkdy.— Kerosene oil 3 ozs. ; skunk's oil 1 ^7.; 
mix,*and shake wlien applied. Put it on quite freely, and heat u m 
l)v t'he stove, or bv means of a hot shove). , . . , , 

" A firm of grocers, Slawson & Geer, of this city, have been 
n^ino- this mixture durin- the past winter upon their ownc 
porsSns, and have recommended to many others amon.rst 
them, one of the Clergymen, and also the President of the. 
University, and so far as they know, it has proved very suo' 
eessful, relieving the pain directly. 

15. One of our physicians in the city has used a prep.yatioD' 
Tery nearly resembling the above, but varying sufficient Ml- 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 13* 

satisfy myself thtit any other animal oil will do as well as 
that IVoiii the lii;^hly-flav<ire(l one. above nientiuned. 

He usril kerosciKMiil 2 ozs. ; n cats- fool uil 1 oz., oil of origanum 
i oz. ; nii.\j.-<l and shakiin as used. 

'J'he sujcil of the kerosene is not very pleasant, but if a 
pair of ankles arjd feet, ba<lly swollen, so much so tliat you 
Could not walk on theru for months, could be cured in two ot 
three weeks, as it was in this ease, it might be well to pirt 
np with its disaiiieeable smell. Kub and heat it in thor- 
oughly twice daily. 

ASTHMA— Krmkdtes. — Elecampane, angelica, comfroy, and 
spikiMiani roots, witli lioarhmiml lops, of each 1 oz. : bruise and 
steep in lioiu'V 1 pi. Dose — A lable-spoon, taken hot every f«^w 
miiMites, tnitii relief is obtained, Iheu several limes daily until 
a cure is etiecled. 

It cured a young lady, near the ^^ Falls of the Ohio,'' 
whom the doctors said it was wicked to disturb ; " let her 
die in peace/' was their advice to the parents. An old lady, 
instead, let her /ire in peace. It will be found very excel- 
lent in any couuh ; even low consumptivc^s will find great 
relief from its use. 

2. Dr. J. K. Finley, of Pittsburg, cured a lady with 
whom I afterwards became ac^juainted, and from the com- 
pleteness of the cure, I v/as induced to write to the doctor 
and obtain the prescription. It is as Ibllows : 

Oil of tar 1 i\r.; tincture of veratrum viride 2 drs. ; simple 
syrupy drs,; mix. Dose — For adults 15 drops 3 or 4 limes 
daily. 

1 have very great confidence in this prescription. 

3. A lady at Yellow Springs, O., tells me that she cured herself 
of Asthma, by using, for her common drink, a tea made of the 
leaves of common chestnut, which had fallen from the tree in 
ttutmn; sweeten well, and continue ils use for 2 or 3 months. 

She used it for a month at first, and it returned, when 
she continued its use for two months; and ten years havo 
elapsed without its return. It is certainly safe as well as 
simple, and of easy trial. 

Lobelia is considered by some a specif c in asthma, but 
Oys prejudice against it is so great I forbear speaking fur- 
tKer of it ; but : 

1 Iodide of potasium has cured a bad case of asthwia, by 



140 Da. chase's eeoipes. 

m 

taking 5 gr. doses, 3 times daily. Take J oz. and put it irtto % 
viiil and add o2 tea-spoons of water — then 1 tea-s]»o()n of it wul 
contain the 5 gi*s., which put into ^gill more ol water, autl dnii& 
beloie meals. 

COMPOSITION POWDER— Thompsons.— " Bayberry l)ark 
2 1hs. ; Ijendock hark 1 Ih. ; ginger ro'4 1 lb.; cay(*niie |u))p(:i 
2 u/.s. ; cloves 2 ozs. ; all finely pulverized and* well mixed 
DosK — One-half of a tea-sj^oon ot it, and a 8]>oon of sugar ; put 
them into a tea-cup and pour it lialt full of boiling water ; 1-1 il 
stand a few niiuiites and fill the cu|> willi milk, and drink freolj 
If no miik is to be obtained, fill up tjie cup with hot water. 

**'J'hi.s, in the first stages and less violent attacks of disease 
is a valuable medicine, and may be safely eni|iloyed in aU 
eases. It is good in relax, pain in tlie stotnacli and bowels, 
and to remove all obstructions caused by cold. A few doses, 
tlie patient beitig in bed with a steaming stone at tlie feet, 
or liaving soaked the feet fifteen or twenty minutes in hot 
water, drinking freely oi' the tea at the same titne, will cure 
a bad cold, and often tlirow oif disease in its first stages." 
I use it, taking, or giving, lobelia emetics as nientioned uiider 
the head of *' Eclectic Emetics.^' I use it also, as a : 

2. Dyspepttc Tea. — Where an attack has been bronglit 
on by over-indulgence at an extra rich meal, you will find 
immediate and generally perfect relief by having a cup of 
this tea made, and drinking about one-half of it fifteen min- 
utes before meals, and the balance just as you sit down to 
tlie meal, not taking any other fluid at all until after diges- 
tion is over, following up the same plan for a few d.iys or 
weeks, as may be necessary. It stitnulates th.e stoma-, h to 
action, causing dijestion and absorption, preventing also the 
accumulation of gas, which is the cause of eructations of 
wind from the stomach, commonly called belching, and gives 
t^ne to the whole system. 

A cup of this tea taken when going out into extreme cold, 
will be found a better warmer than the whisky or any other 
arient spirit, which so many resort to upon such occasions; 
and, what is best of all, it will be found : 

3. A Perfect Cure for Drunkenness. — L'^t tliose 
^ho are accustomed to the excessive use of ardent^ -spin ls, 
and who wish tost<.p the practice, I say, let such have a 
eup of this tea made, as abo^e directed, and drink a part of 



MSDICAL DErARTMENT. 141 

ft immediately oa rising in the morning, and the bakno* 
Just before meal time, keeping entirely away from the 
places of temptation, they will find a warm, heahhy glow 
«preadhig from the stomach over the whole system, with a 
desire for food, instead of " rot-gut/' Follow this up faith- 
fully two or three times daily, or whenever the craving begins, 
for the accustomed stimulus, for a few days or wee/ca^ if 
necessary, and it will be found that the cayenne, which ia 
tlio purest stimulant in the whole Materia Medica, with its 
assistant, the bayberry, which stimulate without an after 
prostration, have gradually supplied and satisfied the previ- 
ous false appetite or cravings of the stomach ; whilst the 
combination has toned up the stomach together with the 
whole system, and again you find youuself a man. 
But remember, oh, remember ! ^our oidy safety is in keep- 
inij entirtlij away from places wliere intvxicatinjj spirits are 
kept or sold 1 

A burned child will not play with fire. I would to God 
that a burned man was equally wise. For not one in a thou" 
Band can resist the solicitation of enemies, (called friends,) 
to take a glass, just one^ and that one glass acts likcy)Y.sA 
coals upon extinrpiishcd brands, and the fire goes ahead again 
with a hundred fold more energy than if thrown upon wood 
which had never been charred ; hence, the propriety of the 
sentence *' plucked as a brand from the everlasting burn- 
ings,'' — for if re-kindled there is but little prospect of another 
extinguishment of the raging fire. Dr. Thompson, notwith- 
standing all that has been said against him, has done more 
good than any other medical man that ever lived ; for he set 
the people to studying for themselves. 

STIMUIjAJS'T— In Lov/ Fevrks, and After Utehixe IlE^f- 
ORunAGES.— MiSTiniA Si'iKiTUS VTNi Gallicl— Bost brandy, 
and cinnamon water, of each 4 fluid ozs. ; the yolks of 2 eg^, 
well beaten ; loaf sugar i oz. ; oil of cinnamon 2 drops ; mix. 
DosK — From \io\ (fluid) oz. ; as often as required. This makes 
Doth eat and drink. Of course, any other flavoring oi s can bo 
ftsed, if preferred, in place of the cinnamon. 

This mixture is an imitation of the well-known compound 
termed " egg- Sip.'' It is an exceedingly valuable stimulant 
and restorative, and is employed in the latter stages of low 
fevers, and in extreme exbaustioo from uterine hemorrhage*. 



142 BB. CHASER'S EBCIPXS. 

It may be used in place of the " egg-nog*' spoken of in tha 
treatiuent of consuiiiption, No. G. 

ALTERATIVES.— Sykup ok Hlood ruT^TFTEn..-ITon(liiraf 
Barsaparilla l2ozs. ; guaiHCiini shavings (h)zs. ; winter green leaf 
4 ozs. ; sassafras- root hark 4 ozs. ; eUler flowers 4 ozs. ; yellow 
dock H ozs. ; burdoek-rool 4 ozs.; dandelion-root (> ozs. ; bitter- 
sweet-rooi 2 ozs. ; all bruised. Place these ingredients in a suit- 
able vessel and add alcohol 1 pt., \vit)i water sutficient to cover 
handsomely, set them in a moderately warm place for d or 4 
days, pour'off 1 pi. o\' the tincture and set it aside until you nd6 
water to the uigredients and boil to obtain the strength, pour off 
and add more water and boil again, then boil ihetwo waters down 
to 1 (p.; strain, and add the lupior first poureil ofl', and add 2^ 
lbs. crushed or coffee sugar, and simmer to form a syrup; when 
C4>ol. bottle and seal up t(»r use, Dose — One to 2 lable-sjuxms^. 
aa'or.ling to the age and slrenglu of Ike patient, ^ hour be*« ^ 
meals and at bed lime. 

This, or any oth^i^r alterative, when given, should be fol- 
lowed up tor weeks or months, according to the disease foi 
which it is prescribed, as scrofula, and for every disease 
depending upon an im[)ure condition of the blood. Itough'. 
to be used in sore eyes ol' long standing, old ulcers, salt' 
rheum, &c. I would not give this for Jayne's xVlterative, 
nor Swain's, Townsend's or Aycr's Sarsaparillas, because 
Iknow it IS good, and we also know what it is made of. 

2, Altepattvr, Ykry Stuoko. — Poke, mandrake, yellov^ 
dock, sassafras, blue tlag, roots, and bark of the roots, guaiac 
W(K>d raspings, and sweet elder flowers, of each 4 ozs. ; caraway 
Reed '*> oza. ; bnnse the roots, and put to the whole, alcohol 1 (ji., 
and water to cover all iiandsomely ; let staiul o or 4 days in a 
Warm place as the last reci|)e above, making everyway the same 
except to pour off 1 (p., instead of 1 pt., as in theVlrst, of spirit; 
then fV>il tlie waters to 1 (jt., adding 4 lbs. of sugaj '^'th iheqt. 
oi' s]>iriL tincture. The dose behig only 1 table-spoi^ii i times 
daily as above. 

]5utif that amount should make the bowels too loose, re- 
duce the (juautity ; and if that amount does not act upon 
i-he bowels at all, increase the dose to keep the bov^els solv- 
ent. This may be used in the most inveterate diseases of 
long standing, syphilis not excepted. 

8. Altkkativk CATn.\UTTC— Powder.— -RochellepaUs 5 oz^ » 
crean: of taitar 2 ozs.; sul[)hur I oz. ; (epsom smUs ir.ay be use^ 
but ap' tun quite as good.)phice the Sidl^ in a dripping pan and 
Bet in ihe stove oven until all the water of ciystaliztdoi; is dried 
out ; tlien place all in a mortar and rub finely and Ihorouglil^ 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 14& 

liyfetiiei. Dose — ^Ox up a few spoons of the powder with mo 
.?*dse£ ; then take a tea-spoon every 3 or 4 hours until aire* 
CJiiliariic action is kept up for 24 to 80 hours; then take once o> 
Uvice daily ()nly» to act on the bUKxi, increasing once in 10 day* 
lo get up the cathaitic action, as at first. 

This alterative is especially valuable in any disease of 
ihe skin, as itch, pimples, salt-rheum, and any other erup 
lions where an outward application is being made, or Is <4^ut 
to be made, also valuable in sore eyes. 

4. Alterative, Tonic, and Cai hartic Bitteiis.— Rest rj^e 
i^nisky, and water, of each, 1 qi.; best uuji^^Tound Peruvian bark, 
C^)londM» root, and prickly-ash berries, ol each, 2ozs. ; prickly- 
Ksh, black riierry, and p<)[)lar barks, of each, 1 oz. ; poke-root, 
Diandrake-n^ol, and cloves, of each, i oz. ; all to be the dry arti- 
cles, and all to be pulvcrizcil before putting into the spirits; 
8)iake every day for a week, by which time it will be ready lor 
^se. Dose — One lo 2 table-spoons ^i morning and evening 
meals. 

Although tlus alterative is mentioned last in the list., yei 
It is not least in value. I first made tins prescription lor idj 
cwn use, feeling tliat I needed sonjething oi' just such ^ 
nature, and it worked so adnnrably that I gave it to otncra. 
It has given such entire satislaction, that I am now at the 
ttjif/t edition, giving it a place to do a greater good than if 
kej)t tVum the world. 

if, in any case, it causes any griping sensations, or tuo 
great action upon tlie bowels, lessen the dose, and il* ucitiier 
of these actions are felt, increase the dose, or take it three 
times daily. I think any of the fruit wines wdl do in 
place of the spirits and water, by adding alcoh®! ouc-Lalf 
puir. 

Ir, will be found very valuable in all cases of weakness 
from general debility, and especially so when tLe liver is 
inactive, known by constant costiveness. 

After using out the spirits, it may be filled again it* the 
game way. It will be found very valuable in aeruu, am liter 
ftll fevers, preveuting relapse, and strengthening up tnc gen- 
eral system. 

DIURETICS— Pill, Drops, Decoction, &c.- -Solidified co- 
paiba 2 |)arts; alcoholic extract of cubebs I part; fc.rrr.ed into 
pil'a v\ iiii a little oil of juniper. Dose — One or 2 pills 3 or 4 
times daily. Druggists caa obtain tliem of TUden & Co., Neil 
York. 



144 1>R- chase's R£€lPJEa 

This pill h'As hiHiU fuaod very valuable in aiTccticiis of thm 
kidneys, bkdder, and urethra, as inflammution from gravel. 
gonorrhea, gleet, whites, lucorrhca, common inflammations, 
&c. For giving them a sugar coat, see that heading, if de- 
sired. 

2. DiUKETic Drops. — Oil of cubebs i oz. ; sweet spirits of 
citre i oz. ; balsam of copaiba 1 cz. ; Harlem Oil I bottle; oi) 
of i(lverider 20 drops ; s])iritb oi turpentine 20 drops ; mix. 
DorvK — Ten to 25 di'ops, as the stomach will bear, 3 times daily. 

It may be used in any of the above diseases with great 
satisfaction. 

3. Drm^ETic Decoction.— Queen of the meadow, dwarf- 
eider, yellow dock and poke-roots, of each 1 oz. ; dandelion, bur- 
dock, American SarsapariUa, and blue tlag r<K>ts, of each ^ oz, ; 
grind or pound all up, and thoroughly mix. Dose — Take up a 
pinch with tlie ends of the lingers and thumb of one hand, say J 
to ^ oz., and pour upon it 1 pt. of boiling water, steeping awhile; 
y/Uen cool, take a swallow or two sufficiently often to use up the 
pt. in tlie course of the day. 

Follow this plan two or three days, or as may be necessary, 
resuming the course once iu tea or twelve days. It may be 
used in all obstructions of the kidneys, where the urine la 
high colored or scanty. 

4. DruRETic TrsCTUiiE. — Green or growing spearmint mashed, 
put into a bottle and covered with gin, is an excellent diuretic. 

5. DiUKETic FOR CiTTTiDKEN.— Spirits of uitrc — a few drops in 
a little spearmint tea — is all sufficient. For very young children 
pumi)kin seed, or watermelon seed tea Is perhaps the best. 

DROPSY.— Syrup and Pills.— Queen of the meadow root 
dwarf-elder flowers, berries, or inner bark, juniper berries, horse- 
radish root, pod milkweed or silkw^eed, often called, root of each 
4 ozs. ; prickly-ash bark or berries, mandrake-root, v'^**>.r«weet 
bark of the root, of each 2 ozs. ; white mustard seed 1 oz. • nol- 
land gin 1 pt. 

Pour boiling water upon all, except the gin, and keep hot 
for twelve hours ; then boil and pour off twice, and boi. 
l!own to three quarts and strain, adding three pounds of 
sugar, and lastly the gin. DosE—Take all the stomach will 
bear, four times daily, say a wine-glass or more. This will 
be used in connection with the following? : 

2. Dhopsy Pills.— Jalap 50 grs. ; gamboge 30 gr?^. ; podo- 
phyllin 20 grs. ; elaterium 12 grs. ; aloes :j0 grs. ; cayenne J>o ^s. ; 
eastd^ itoap shaved, dried and pulverized, 20 grs. ; crotoA o0 90 



MEDIOAL DEPAKTMENT. H6 

Irops ; powder all finely, and mix tboroughl j ; tii€D form into 
piil mass by using a thick mucilage made of equal parts of gum 
arable and trMgacantli, and divide into 3 y^r. pills. Doe^E — One 
pul every 2 days for the tirst week, then every 3 or 4 da\'G uniil 
the v^ater is evacuated by the combined aid of the pill witii tha 
above syrup. 

In this disease the work must be very thorough, and I 
am iijclined to think that if our directions are followed^ that 
whoever find themselves under the operations of the medi- 
cine will consider the work to be about as thorough as we 
gxpect. Some sickness of the stomach may be expected 
under the operation of the pill, but never mind it, go ahead 
and four or live days will satisfy most persons of the value 
of the treatment ; for you may expect to see the greatest 
evacuations, front and rear, that you ever have witnessed. 
If the patient should become weak and exhaust :d under tb3 
continued treatment, slack up a little and throw in beel* tea, 
wine, etc., with rich nourishing diet, and no danger need bo 
apprehended. The above pill will be found very valuable 
in bilious colic, and other cases hard to operate upon. They 
have operated in fifteen minutes^ but not usually so quick, 
01 course ; but it will generally be found best not to ven- 
ture over one pill at a dv>se; two have been taken, however 
hut they made a scattering among the tvaste paper, causing 
fourteen evacuations, having to call for the second '^ cham- 
ber'' the first fire. Some have called them the '^ Irish l^ih,*' 
IVom their resemblance to the Irish girl with her brush and 
scrub-broom. They make clean work. 

IRRITATING PLASTER. ~Extenst\t^.ly Used by Eclko 
TICS. — Tar 1 ib. ; burgundy ])itch i oz. ; wliite pine turpentine * 
oz. ; rosin 2 ozs. Boil tlie tar, rosin and gum together a short 
time, remove from tlie fire, and stir in finely pulverized man- 
drake root, blood root, poke root, and Indian turnip, of each 1 oz. 

This plaster is used extensively m all cases where counter 
irritation or revulsives are indicated ; as in chronic affec- 
tions of the liver and lungs, or diseased joints, &c. It is 
applied by spreading it on cloth and over the seat of pain, 
renewing it every day, wiping ofi^ any matter which may b« 
on it, and also wiping the sore produced by it with a dry 
cloth, until relief is obtained, or as long as the patient caa 
bear it. Always avoid wetting the sore, as it will cause ia- 
flammation^ and you will be obliged to heal it up inuueii* 
r &R. class's esciprs. 



146 sUk. chaise's R£ciFjei». 

atcly, instead of which the design is to keep a running sore 
as long as may be necessary, using at tlie same time consti- 
tutional remedies as the case may require. 

INFLAMMATION— Of the Liver.— Inflammation 
of the liver, or as it is generally called, *• jjiver com{)laint/' 
is of two forms, acute and chronic. The acute form U 
known by a sense of weight and pain in the right side, un- 
der the short ribs, and often in that shoulder, or between 
the shoulders, pale or yellow appearance, oi'ten great depies- 
sion of spirits, not much appetite, costivcness, high colored 
urine, &c., and often with lever, and sometimes with pain 
similar to that of pleurisy, difficult breathing, dry cough, 
an«l sometimes sickness, with vomiting. 

Li tlie chronic, or long standing complaint, in addition to 
the above, there is generally flatulence, with pain in the 
stomach, foul breath and mouth, coated tongue, indigestion, 
eyes yellow, stools clay colored, with great weakness and slow 
emaciation, frerjuently going on to ulecration, giving symp- 
toms as mentioned under the head of '' Ointment for Ulcer- 
ated J/iver," «^c. 

In the acute form you will pursue the same course ad 
mentioned under the head of *' Pleurisy,'' besides taking 
either of the Jiiver Pills or liiver Drops mentioned below, in 
full cathartic doses, until relieved ; biit in the chronic form, 
the Pills, in connection with the *' Ointment,'* or *' Irrita- 
ting Plaster." will be found all sufficient, unless Jaundice 
has already set in; then look to the directions under thai 
disease, 

2. Eclectic Ln^KU PrLL.—Podopliyllin 10 grs. ; leptnndrl'V 
20 grs.; sangninarin* 10 grs.; extrart of dandelion 20 grs.; 
f()rnu:d into 20 pills, by being nioisti-nctl a Utile wiili some es- 
eential oil, as cinnamon or peppermint, etc. Dosr — In chronic 
diseases of the liver, take 1 pill at night, tor several days, or 2 
may be taken at tirst to move the bowels; then I daily. 

Ih connection with the pill, wear the '* Irritating Plastei/' 
dver the region of the liver, washing the whole body da»ty, 
by means of towels, and rubbing diy, being careful not to 
wet the sore caused by the planter ; as an active cath*»rtio 

•Note. — Tliese articles are tiept bj £clec*ic Pbjrsicui&s, axxd are begLitiiflic to 
be kept \>s DruggutU geuer»U/. 



ATEDICAL DEPARTMENT, 147 

from two to three pills may be taken in all cases wliere cal 
oniol or blue pills arc considered applicable by ^* Old School 
rhysiciaus/* 

'i. I.ivER Pill Improved. — Lcptandrin 40 grs. : podophjllin 
aud cayenne, 80 grs. fr^acli ; sanguinHrin, iridin juid \\)vau 15gr3. 
each : sec llial all are pulverized aud \vi;ll mixe<l ; thon form into 
pill-mass by usiu<r ^ dr. of the soft extract of mandrake and a 
lijw drops of anise oil, then roil out into 3 grain pills. 

DosiR — Two pills taken at bed time will generally operate 
by morning ; but there are those that will require three, 
whilst one pill every night on retiring, will be Ibund tho 
best corrective of the liver of anything now in use, ibr com- 
mon cases ; but in very bad cases wdiere the pill doe« not 
arouse the liver to action, take the following : 

4. Liver Drops for Obstinate Cases. — Tinctures of man- 
drake and blue flag roots, of each 1 oz. : and of culvers root 2 ozs. 
Dose — For adults. 1 tea-spoon every 3 to 5 hours, increasing the 
dose gradually until you reach two or three tea-spoons, it' the 
mouth does not become sore and the stomach not sickened nor 
the bowels moved too freely. 

These drops are especially a])plicablc in liver and spleen 
enlargements, and cases of very long standing disease of these 
organs ; and in such cases it may be well to use externally, 
over the liver and spleen, especialy if there is believed to be 
ulceration, the following : 

5. Ointment for Ulcerated Liver, Ague Cake, &c.--Take 

% good handful of smartweed, wormwood, and the bark of suT?'ac 
root; boil all together to get the strength, then strain and noil 
down carefully to about ^ pt., adding lard i lb., and simmering 
together; wiien nearly cool add a tea-spoon of spirits of lurpen 
tine. 

Apply at night, by rubbing it over the liver or other 
organ which may have pain or disease located upon it, heat- 
ings it in well by the stove or by a heated iron, putting it on, 
rublnng, and heating it in three or four times each applica- 
tion. 

I obtained this prescription from the Rev. Mr. Fraser, of 
this city, whose ne]:>liew was so afflicted with ulceration of 
the hver that a council of Doctors said he must die ; the 
pain was situated just under the short ribs of the right side, 
completely bowing him together, like the one of old who 
«ould '^ in no wise lift up herself," ile had had a sistefi 



148 Da. chase's EECirES, 

whf died some years before ; but at this junctnro ^ i^d me(9 
thf invalid dreamed of meetinix her, and sh«» gave hip: tiik 
pr-*scription, which he told his mother in the mornin(^ ; and 
'ihe would not rest until it was tried, and it entirely cured 
^ae patient. The Elder tells me he h^is given it to a great 
nany persons, for pains of internal organs, ague cakes, &c., 
and that it has given great satisfaction — a perfect cure. The 
two first named articles I know to be good for what they are 
hero recommended, but they are generally used by boiling 
and laying the herbs over the aftected parts, or by. steaming 
the parts over the herbs. 1 see no reason why spirits froixi 
the other world should not be permitted to communicate 
with the spirits of friends here; but that they are so per- 
mitted, to communicate in such a way as to be understood 
}>y us Irail mortals, I never did, nor do I now believe, neither 
r*o I believe this to be thejirst dream of this character which 
luis proved valuable. There are many things of a similar 
character in the history of a number of individuals in the 
>^^ni^Q of my acquaintance, more singular and more unao- 
countable than the above, which would be very interesting 
'^) relate, but the nature of this work does not admit, li 
^jiis shall benefit any, I shall be satisfied. 

PILLS— -Nervous Pill. — Alcoholic extract of the Ignatia 
Aniara, (St. Ignatius bean) 'dO grs. ; powdered gum arable 10 gr8. 
Hake into 40 pills. 

Oosa— One pill to be taken an hour after breakfast, and cne 
an hour before retiring at night, Haifa pill is enough for young, 
or very old or very delicate persons. The pills may be easily 
cut if kid on a damp cloth for a few moments. 

Tbesr^ pUls will be found applicable in bad Dyspepsia, 
nervous headache, sleeplessness, palpitation of the heart, con- 
fusion of thought, determination of blood to the head, fail- 
ure of memory, and all other forms of general nervous de- 
bility, no matter of bow long standing. Where a prominent 
advantage is discovered in two weeks from the commence- 
ment of the medicine, one a day will suffice until all are 
taken. 

The extract is made by pulvenzing the seed or bean, and 
putting it into alcohol from ten ^o fourteen davs, then evap- 
orating to the consistence for working i«to dIII mass with tha 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 1^3 

This is the prescription of the Rev. John M. Dagnal, the 
* Retired IMiysician," brought out in 1854, and to my at- 
teuriiiu, aiul that ol* tho uiedieal class, by Prof. Paluier, iu the 
University oi* iMichigau, iu the winter of '5G-7 He said 
when this prescription first came out he was practicing in 
Chicago, and many persons sent for the pills, and derived 
Diiwh benefit from tlieir use, at first, but soon after thejf 
Stunned to lose their efficacy, and he presumed the reason to 
bo that the demand was so great that somctliing else waa 
substituted in place of the extract. This being the case, 
druggists ougiit to prepare the extract themselves, so as to 
furnish patients with the genuine article for home use. It 
is uudoubtedly a splendid prescription, if put up with fidelity 

2. Pills — To Sugar Coat. — Pills to be sugar-c>oatcd 
must be very dry, otherwise they will slirink away from the 
coating and leave it a shell, easily crushed off. When they 
are dry, you will : 

Take rtareh, ^ urn arable, and white sugar, equal parts, rubbing 
them ve»y tine in a murl)le mortar, and if damp, they must bo 
dried bciore rubbing together; then put the powder into a suita- 
ble pan, or box, tor shaking; now put a few pills into a small 
tin bo.'T having a cover, and pour on to tliem just a little shnpio 
syrup, r.^.aking well to moisten llie surface only, then throw into 
liie \)OK of powder ami keep in motion until cojupletely coaled, 
dry, and smooth. 

jf you aro not very careful you will get too much syrup 
upon the piHs; if you do, put in more and be quick about 
it to prevent moistening the pill too much, getting them into 
the pov/der as soon as possible. 

3. Ai^'ODVNE Pills.— 3Iorphine 9 grs. ; extract of stramonium 
S'vJ hyoseianuis, of eacli 18 grs; fonr into pill-mass by using 
^ohiMon of gum arable and tragacanth, qmte thick. Divide into 
40 |)iil?,. Dose— In case of severe ^^ain or nervousness, 1 pill 
Uken at bed lime will be found to give a quiet night of rest. 

The advantage of tliis pill over those depending entirely 
upon opium or morphine for their ano'^vne tjroperties, is, 
that they may be taken without fear ot consupacion. 

OKOUP — Simple, but Effectual Remedy. — This dis- 
ease is attended with inflammation of the windpipe, epasmii 
ot the muscles of the throat, occasioning a peculiar sound, 
hard to be described, but wheu once heard by a mothet, 



150 0B. CHASE'S RECIPES 

never to Le forgotten ; cough, diflacult respiration, anrt fever. 
The phlegm or mucous olten filling, or very much ob«truct- 
iiig the throat, and finally tbrming a laise membrane wh ch 
cuts oif all possibility oi* breathing. 

The first thing to be done is to get hot water read}' as soon a9 
possiblw", hnvuv^ ali/^ays tm han«l a bottle of cmetie UiictLre,C'»ni 
po«>ed ot'eiiual pans of the tinctures ot' h)belia aud blood r>ot 
Dose — According to the age ol" the ehihl ; if 2 years oKl,aboi:t ! 
tea-spoon every 10 to 13 minutes until i'vv^ voiiiiiing tak(.*s place • 
if 5 years old 2 tea-spoons, and inereasnig in pro|H»rii<»n lo age 
to 1 table-spoon fora eiiiUl of lOyears, ilecreasin« for very young 
children, say of 4 to 8 months, only s to 12 drops. Tlace the 
feet as soon as possible into hot waier, and keep Ihem there un- 
til vomiting lakes place, laying cloths wiung out of hot water 
upon the breast ami throjii^ cliangmg suttieiently otten to keep 
them hot. Tlie next monung give sutheiejil of llie '* \'ege»able 
Physic" to move the bowels rather iieeiy. The emetic tincture 
should be ^iven in some warm tea. 

Repeat the emetic as often as the returning svmptonis de- 
mand it, which usually occur the tbllowltig nigh*-, rei^catirig 
tlie cathartic every second or third day, and I will guarantee 
success ircommcticed in any kind of reasonal)le time; but 
usually no repetition will be needed if parents keep the [)ro- 
parition in the house so as to begin with the beginning of 
the disease. 

2. DuTcn Remedy. — Goose oil, and urine, equal quantities. 
DosK — From a tea to a tabie-spoon of tlie nuMure, accnrding to 
the age ot the child. Repeat the dose every 15 minutes, if the 
tirst does not vomit in that time. 

This remedy will be found valuable in mild cases, and 
where the first ir not at hand; and 1 know it to have sav^^d 
a child when one of their best Doctors said it ujust die ; but 
bear in mind he had not used our first prescrif)tic?o ; yet ao 
old Dutch woman came in at tlie elcvcuth liour, from the 
next door neighbors' wash-tub, and raised the child with 
what she called " p — s and goose grease." 1 have used it 
with success. , 

3. Cuour Ointment. — Take mutton suet and nice lard, of 
each i lb.; spermaceti tallow ^ oz. ; meM them together an<l a«ld 
^ pt. of the best vinegar, and simmer until the vinegar is near'y 
evai)orate»l, skimming welh and constantly stirrini;, mitil ii be- 
gins to granulate; then add oils of aml>er and spruce, an<l pul 
verized sugar of lead, of each ^ oz. ; now remove from tlie fire 
add stir it until cooL Oosb — For a child of *^ years old, irivt 



MEDICAL DEPARTAtENX, 151 

from t to 1 tea-spoon every i liour, until relief is obtained, or 
antil vomiting T;ikt»s place; at the same time rubbing ii upon 
the clie8i, ami over the liiroat ami lungs, Ireeiy. 

Dr. , uf* Finley, ()., says, IVom his experience, he 

knows it will cure as olten as quinine will break up th^ 
ague. 

IIYrmOl^ITOBIA AND SNAKE BITES— To Pre- 
vent, AM) CuHK. — A. Hubbard, ot* IJoune Co., Hi.^ in 3 
leiter to the St. Jiuuis lle[)ubliean, says : '' h^i^bteeu years 
agti my brother and niyselt' were bitten by a mad -dog. xV 
sheep was also bitten at the same time. Anjon*^ tiic many 
cuios offered lor the little boys, (we were then ten or twelve 
years old,) a friend su^^t^ested the following which he said 
«ruald cure the bite of a rattlesnake : 

**Take the root oC the common upland ash, commonly called 
bhrtk asli, pi'cl otf the bark, tK)il it to a strong (Iccoction, and 
of t.iis, <lrink tVeely. Whilst my fatlu'i' was preparing ihr abnve, 
tie sheep spokwn of began to be afliieleil with hydrophobia. 
\V hou it ha<l become so taiigued from its distracted state as to 
be Lo longer able to stand, my father drenched it with a i>inl of 
the d,sli root ooze, hoping to ascertain wlicther he could depend 
aj)oii it as a cure f(»r his sons. Four hours after the dreiirh had 
been given, to tiie astonishment of all, the ammal got up and 
Went <piielly with the tl<»ek to graze. J\!y broilier and ujyself 
contijiue\l to lake the medicine for b or 10 days, 1 gill ii times 
daily. No etlects ol' ilie vlread poison were ev<.'r disc»)veretl t>n 
either of us. It has been used very successfully in snake biles, 
10 ih,y knowledge." 

There is no doubt in the author's mind but what thisgen- 
rienian has ma<le a mistake in the kind of ash meant, as the 
upland ash is white-ash, from which Hooring is made, having 
a tldck, rough outside bark, whilst tlie l)laek has a smooth 
bank, and grows in low, wet land, and isthesame from which 
the fltur barrel hoop is exteusivel)? manufactured. It is the 
upland white-ash that is to be used ; it is known, as he says, 
to cure rattlesnake bites, and a gentleman oi' this place has 
tried it with success in rheumatism, boiled very strong and 
taken in half gill doses. May vomit and purge if taken too 
freely. Vet a moderate action, either up or down, will not 
be amiss. I have cured a case oi* rheumatism, in a boy 1 
twelve or fourteen years of age, with the above, since it 
came: to my knowledge. 



152 VEL CUABS'Q EECIPE&, 

2. Saxon Remedy. — Gastell, a Saxon forester, do^ of 
the venerable age of eighty two, unwilling to take to the 
grave with him a secret of so much injpurrance, has made 
public in the Leip.^lc Jourmil the means wliich he has use*^ 
iil'ty yo^vs, and wherewith he affirms, he has rescued man} 
humap jeiugs and cattle from the I'eari'ul death of Hydro- 
phob'i. 

^'ake immediately alter the bite, warm vinegar or tepid water, 
•'/asb the wound clean th^vrewiUi, and dry it; then pour u)>oij 
iie wound a tew drops of liydrocidoric acid, because mineral 
acids destroy the poison ot tiie saliva. 

8. GuiX'iAN Remedy. — Eat the green shoots of arparaj;us raw 
sleep and perspiration will be induced, and the disease can bt 
thus cured in any stage of canine madness. 

A writer in the Providence Journal^ says a man in Atb 
ens, Greece, wa^ cured of Hydrophobia by this remedy, eveii 
after the paroxysms had commenced. 

4. Quaker Remedy — Fifty Years Successfitl.— 
Jacob Ely, a good old honest Quaker merchant, of Idoyds- 
^ille, 0., gave me the following plan which his father hacji 
used since 1806 with success, to his knowledge, both on per- 
sons and domestic animals; and the xSew York Tribune ha» 
recently published sometliiug of the same character. 

The dried root of elecampane, pulverize it and measure out 9 
heapini? table-spoon?., and mix it with 2 or 8 tea-spoons of pul- 
verized gum andiic ; then divide into 9 equal portiouij. ^\ hen 
a person is bitten by a rabid animal, take one of these portions 
and steep it in 1 pt. of new milk, until nearly ball' the quantity 
of njilk is evaporated ; then strain, and ilrij^k it in the morning, 
fasting for 4 or 5 hourg after. The same dose is to be repeated 
8 morniuiis in succession, then skip 3, and so on until the 9 
doses are taken. 

The patient must avoid getting wet, or the heat of the 

► sun, and abstain from high sea.soned diet, or hard exercise, 

and, if costive, take a dose of salts. The above quantity u 

for an adult — eliildren will take less according to age. Thti 

Tribune^s publication is as Ibllows : 

5. Tribune's Cure for IIydrophobta. — The following 
was sent to the N. Y. Tribune^ by J. W. AVoolston, of 
Philadelpliia : 

" Kecipf.. — First dose, 1 oz. of elecampane root, boiled in 1 
pt. oi milk until reduced to i pt Second dose, (to be taken two 



XIEDXCAL DEPARTMENT, 1^4 

Aaj^ after the Grst,) H ozs: of elecampane root, boiled in 1 pt 

^1 milk, sriine as the first. Third dose, same as the second, (to 
t>o l;ikvn two days atU'r,) — in all, three doses." 

If there is an}" virtue in the elecampane, ac all, the pref- 
erence. x)i' course, is to be given to the Quiilver'ti plan, which 
2:ives nine instead oi' three doses, lint if suO^^ranciatcs Mr 
Ely's plan, as it comes (Vom the place of bis facher's former, 
residence. Conserjuently it would eeem lo sirengtnen eoai 
dence in the first. 

(). Snakp: BfTK:s. — In case of beni^ bitten by any of the po' 
sonous siudves, the best plan is to wash ot!' the place irnmedidtelif 
tht-n it* Uie posiiitjn of the wound is such that you can get iht 
YriAtutk fo the spot, iinck out all the poison iji that way, or it anf 
otiinr person is present, whose mouth is not sore, no dangel 
Deed be apprehended. 

For all the poison may be upon the outside, and washed 
off, yet niost likely penetrates more or less into the wound, 
if a snake bite, as the arrangement of their teeth is ^uh 
that the poison comes out near the point and when iu the 
Wound, thus you see the propriety of tiucking it out. Or : 

7. Spirits ot* ammonia, a small vial of it, can be carried in the 
p(»(kel, and if hitlen, shar|>eu a llllle piece ot* wood to a small 
poi!ii, dij)pin;x tliis stick into the ammonia, and llien |)enetr;iting 
the wound vvitli it. A piece of lunar caustic can be carried \\ 
the pocket, and shar[)encd, if needed, and used the same as the 
stick and ammonia — and one of the celebrated Knglish farriers 
lias reported tiial this caustic, used freely on the bite of the )nnd 
d4»*,\ tk'stroys the pois()n ; l)ut to insme even a rcjisonable ho[>o 
of siKx^-ess, it must be used imweiHntely. This holds good in any 
of the bU(:king or caustic applications. 

All persons working on or near marshes, or wherever tho 
massasau</er is known to inhabit, should always have one of 
these causticfl with them. 

8. l>ut w.Hcn a person is bitten in the absence of all these 
caustics, ai]d not being able to reach the spot to suck out 
the poison, he nmst drink whisKy enough to get as drunk 
as a bK)l, or ri^3 whole dependence must be upon the ash, 
asparagus, or eh'Camnane. 

The Xfitiuruu Jnh'lhyevcer, a year or two since, published 
a recipe fur the cure of the rartlesnake bite, which it 
«l;jimed was infai^A^ole. it having haan tried in a nui'iber of 
crises, and always wiih success. It was nothing more nor 
less than the use of whusky as atxove recommended, and it 



154 DR. chase's recipes - 

is but ju!?ticc to say that a daughter of Wm. Ree^V of tht 

town of Pittsficld. in this county, who wnshitrcn on the;irtQ 
Rome three years ago, was cureii by drinkin;: whisky imti^ 
ilrunkeuness and stu; or were prochieed. ami .^^he has ncvel 
lelt any imonvi'iilencc IVuni the bite sinre^ which goes to 
show that the bite oi' the JJeviCs tea is worse than the bito 
of a rattlesnake. 

9. 1 know an old physician who was called to a boy bitten 
by a rattlesnake, and in the absence oi* all other renw^dles, 
l>e cured hiui upon the princif)le that, " The hair (.1* ihe 
llog will euie his bite,'* taking a piece of the snake ab(»at 
two iriches lung, splitting it on the back, and binding it 
upon the bite. It cleansed the wound very v/liite, and no 
bad effects were seen I'rom it. 

10. Salkkatur, nioistcnetl and bound upon the bite: the© 
dissolve ni<»re, aiul keep the parts wt*i with it I'or a f w hours 
has cured luaiiy m issiisauuer-hiles, as also In e-stings. 

11. SxAKK l>iTTt:N Cattle. — 1Ikmki>v. — Cattle or hor 
eesyve usually bitten in the feet. When this is the case, al» 
tliat is necessary to do is to drive them into a niud-lu>L- and 
keep tliem tlieie for a few hours ; if upon I lie nose, bind the 
mud upon the place in such a njanner as not to inteitere 
with tiieir breathing. And I am perleetly satistied tha^ 
soft clay mud would be an excellent a])plication to snak*j 
bites on persons, ior I know it to draw out the poisoniuii 
from ivy, and have been assured that it has dune the same 
for snake bites, of persons as well as tor cattle. 

LYE PK?:PAUATTONS-EyK Wateu.— Tahlesalt and wl.ito 
vitriol, of each, 1 lable-spoon ; lieat ilu-ni up»>n copper or earth 
en nniil dry; the heating drives otf the acrid or biling wattr- 
callcd the water of crvstjili/alioM, nuiking iliem much nnhiei in, 
their aelioti; now add them to soft waiei^^ pt.; putting in uldta 
gugar 1 tal»le-spoon ; blue vitriol a piece the si/e ot a co!)Hn«u 
pea. If \\ should prove loo stroTjg in any case, add m little »"ore. 
soil water to a vial of it. Apply it to the eyesJi or 4 lnr.es daii:^ 

If the eyes are rcrj/ sore, or if the soreness lias been of 
lo)}ij standing, fake the *' Alterative Syru[).'^ or the *' C-v 
thartie Alterative," continuirii: them for several weeks accord 
ing to the necessities x}\' the case. 1 Hnd it an e.xccdienji 
plan, iu using any |>reparation lor sore or weak eyes U« 
apply it agaiu about twenty micutes from the first applvojv 



MEDICAL DEPAKTMJBNT 155 

toll. More than double speed is made bj ibis repetition. 
For intiaininatiun oi* any part of the body, ap|)ly this bj 
welting cloths. Kvon t'nr Si)res about the cars and j^roins:*^ 
babes, reduce it, and three ur lour a[)|)iications will cure 
tiieni. 1 have also found it vahiable for horses, as a wasli, 
v^'Qcn they get the eye injured by straws, or otherwise, which 
Causes the eye to water, or mat. era te, using it iVeely. 

'J lie use oJ' this eye water enabled nie to lay by the spec- 
trtcl*is alter tour years' wearing, and I liave since studied 
L.e<iicine and gratluated as a physician, without resorting 
ta-^ain to their use, by the occasional application of the eyt» 
v-ator l)Ut I iweA not have resorted to the use id* the eye 
Water again, had I nut done \u study, as 1 do in all things 
fctse, that is, when I have anything to do, I do it with ail 
my might, i read steadily, day by day, sixteen hours — 
ojore than five other students, read altogether, who roomed 
nt the same house. Yet this ccjunted in the end ; ibr when 
die class began to in^piire and look around, near the end of 
the term, for one to deliver the Vohjliitftn/^ on their behalf, 
which is the custom in the Kclectie Medical Institute, 1 re- 
«'/ive(l thai, the first honor oj' the class. 1 do n(»t mention 
this t«> boast, by no means, but to show tlie necessity, as weli 
as the advantages, of hard study, es|)ecially to those who 
begin their studies late in life, and are obliged to pay their 
way with their own hands, and support a family also. This 
was ujy ease exactly, in the comtnencemeut oi* my medi- 
cal studies, I worked all day. reading half of tlie night, 
cop}ingotr the lutin trrmn, with their significations, on a slip 
ot* pajier, which 1 carried in my pocket during tlie next day 
looking at two or three oi* the terujs at a time, through the 
day, until all were committed. And thus I accomplished, 
no more than what any other man mny do, if he goes at it 
with a will, and does as 1 did ; and that some one may be 
itimulated to this course is the only object of this recital. 
See ** Advice to Young 31en.'' 

2. D . Kaymond, of Grass Lake, IMich., who obtained 
Die abov ». i>re>cri prion of me, a<lds to each ounce of water 
u.>ed, out grain of morphiu'^, an<l he tells me he has great 
?fucce>s with it; tlie addition of the morj»hine making it 
oearly resemble the celebrated prescri[>tiun uded by the Eng- 
lish surgeons in India, which is as follows : 



8. India Prescription ron Sore Eyes.— Sr.lpliatc cf zinc 
2 grs.; tincture oi* opium, (laudanuiii) 1 dr.; rosoVatcr 2 ozs.; 
mix. Put a drop or two in ti.c eye 2 or o limcb Caily. 

4. Ax Evi: Doctor, of Xcnia, 0., makes a f;rcat v.cc cf the 

oIloYviiig: 

S"]r)hate of zinc, acetate cf lead, and rock Fait, cf each J ^ 
cz.. loa*' sugar 1 oz.; soft Vv'atcr Iv ozs.; iniz \vitliout heat, and 
use as other eye ^vaters. 

5. Dr. Cook, of Ashtabula, Ohio, makes and fells large 
quantities, under the head of *' Cook's Eye ATater." It iy as. 
loUows: 

Sulphate cf zinc 1 oz.; sugar cf lead J< oz.; precipitated 
carbonate of iron i< 02.; salt, and sugar, cf each 1 table spoon ; 
the ^vIlites 01 2 eggs; sott Avater o2 ozs.; mix the whites ( ( 
the eggs, zhic, salt, lead, sugar, and iron v;cll together, thcu 
add the water. 

C. PcR ExcrrsivE Inflammation or TrE Etep — rcv',t''CC 
by boiling a handful cf hops in water, putting in J;oi:i !_> to 1 
dr. of opium, while boiling; when f^tili wain), 1: y l- e"*) rps 
over the eyes and keep than wet with the v, ater 'n which 
they were boiled. 

A lady v. ho had been bl:£tcrcd and £tarvcd, / ccidlr^g to 
Ihc eld pirn, m tbis circarc, v.r.s f ccn (i.rcd 1; tiis ] cx.ltic 
. Eg and vrachirg the eyes often vrith the hcp-v;cter contain 
ing the opium, with generous diet, c^c, contrary to the ex- 
pectations o-f friends, and the predictions cf cricmio:^, to the 
plan. 

^ 7. If sore eyes shed much water, put a little r f the oxide of 
zinc into a vial of water, and use it rather freely — ii sviil boon 
cure that difficulty. 

8 Copperas and vrater has cured soro cyc'^ cf 1 ■«ng r^n.^'l 
ing and used quite strong, it makes an excellent tipplicauoii 
in erysipelas. 

0. Garden Phtrarb. — The juice cf the roct applied to 
the eye, has cured bad cases. 

jO. Eoil an egg, remove the yolk, rnd hnye icr.dy ccrrl 
j>artsc( sulphate^cf zinc and haf sugar, pid ;eriz( d ; f 'ftl e 
2)lace occupied by the yolk, and jqi;c(/e rvt tl e < .1 tbi« vj h 
a flnen clntb, v»hile hot, and apply as needed If too Llieng, 
add a little rain water. 

I EPldab'^okto a i^^r?. Johnson, in Vray -^c county, Kich 
who had used this preparation very euccev^siully for several 
years, and had I not have a::utdy Lad ic in my bock, 1 



dould not have purchased it of her for less than five dollara 
and she regretted very much that I was taking iVom her a 
40urce of profit by selling the books in her neighborhood 
vjontaiuing the recipe. 

11 Bailor's Eye Preparation.— Burn alum, and mix it 
with the wiiiie of eggs and pat betweeti two cloths and lay it 
upon ihe eyes ; taking salts and cream of tartar, equal parts, to 
Oleanse the blood. 

Til is was given to me, and very highly recomuiended, b} 
an old Scotch sailor, with whom I have had much enjoy 
Dient, talking over the sufferings of the sea, he having u=ed 
!t many times in places where nothing else could be ob- 
tained. 

13. Fatiiek PrNKNEY'S Preparation for Very T>ad Sorb 
Eves — Castile soap, scraped fine, and half the quantity of very 
finely pulverized chalk ; wet Ihem up to a paste with strong 
juice of tobacco; when desired to apply to the eye, drop two 
or tluce drops of brandy into the box of paste; then take or/ 
a bit of it where the brandy was dropped, equal in size io tl^ 
fourth of a grain of wheat, to the diseased eye; wet it on a bit 
of glass, and put it into the eye with a earner* hair pencil. 

Apply it twice daily at first, and from that to only once 
in two days, for frooi one to two weeks, will, and has cured 
wretched bad cases, so says old Father Pinkney, of Wayne 
Co.. Mich., who has used it over tifty years, he being over 
ninety years of age. His only object in giving it an inser- 
tion here is to do good to his ibllow creatures ; and also for 
animals, it being equally applicable to horses or cattle. 

13. Indian Eye AVater.— Soft water 1 pt. ; gum arable 1 oz; 
white vitriol 1 oz. ; tine salt i tea-spoon; put all into a bottle 
and shake until dissolved. Put bno the eye just as you retire to 
bed. 

I paid Mrs. Pinny, south of Ypsiknti, Mich., fifty cents 
for this prescription. She would not, however, let lier own 
family know its composition. Her husband had removed 
films from horses' eyes with it, and cured Mr. Chidister, a 
oieichant of Vpsilanti, by only two applications, as the say- 
ing is^ alter he had ^' Tried everything else." It canie from 
a.n old Indian, bat my knmvledge of the articles would lead 
me to say for common, at least, it would require to be re- 
duced one-half. 

14. Tobacco Eyb Wateb.— Fine cut tobacco the size of » 



158 l^R. CHASK'iS E£CiP£8 

common hickory nut; sugar ol lead equal in bulk ; rain watei 
2 ozs. ; opium the size of u pea, lieduce it with more water if 
necessary. 

15. Vkudigrt?^ and Honey, have cured inflamed eyes, by 
usinirjiisi «■ efficient verdigris lo color the water a grass color^ 
then niakin.^ it one-tliird honey. It is also said to prevent scars 
by using upon burns. 

1G. Kaw P<rrATO Poultice, for inflamed eyes, is one of the 
very best applications in recent cases, scraping line and apply- 
ing trecpiently. 

17. Smitkhv-Elm Poultices, are also an excellent applica 
lion, used as ai)<)ve. 

18. Films— To Remove fuom the EvE.—'Wintergreen leaf, 
bruised, and steweil in a suitable (pianlity of hens' oil to make 
the oil strung ui' the wintergreen — strain and apply twice daily. 

The above cured a boy of this city, and I am satisfied thai 
the hens* oil bas cured recent cases, without the winter- 
green, but with it, it has cured beasts also. For cases of a 
year or two's standing, however, it is best to use the follow- 
ing : 

19. Lime w^atef 1 pt. ; finely pulverized verdigris ^ oz. ; set oa 
smbeis tor 1 hour; then tWnin and Ijoitle tight. Touch the 
ilni over the pupil, or on the speck, 2 or 8 limes daily, by 
putting the point of a small cam(ii*s hair pencil into the pn^pa- 
raiion, then to the eye, hohling away tlie lids for a short lime by 
placing the lliumb and finger Ui)on Ihein ibr that purpose. 

It will be found necessary to persevere ibr two or three 
months with this application, and also to use one of the ** Al- 
teratives," to cleanse the blood. Tin's course, pursued for 
three months, gave sight to a young lady who had not seen 
light for two years, which Doctors could not do, nor wer6 
willing lor others to do. 

20. Eve Salve.— Take white precipitate 1 tea-spoon and nd> it 
into a srdve wilh 3 tea-spoons of fresh lard, and applied upon the 
outside of the lid of the worst chronic, (long coniinued), sore 
eyes, has cured them when lliey were so bad that even the eye- 
lashes, (cilia), had fallen out, from the disease. 

A Physician was cured with this eye salve when he could 
noi ^ure himself. If ved precipitate will cure the itch, why 
should not the white cure disease of the eye. 

21. Soi{E Eves— To IvEmove the Granulations. — Crystal 
ized nitrate of silver 2 grs. ; morphia 1 gr. ; l)lue vitriol 1 gr. ; 
Balammoniac 1 gr. ; pui70rize each one separately, and mix Ap- 



ftfEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 159 

ply >nce daily, by pntting a small bit of the mixtVire npon a fMPco 
ot'fr'ass, nuMsUMiing ii vv'i'ili a linle water, and puUiiig inlo t.ne 
ey« i)y incaiis of a small ("amers hair pencil. 

24. ANoriiKii Mktiuh) — h< to take a stick of tag-ahlor ;i^v.ijt 2 
feel long, hoiinu a hole nrarly iliioniiii tin- nii«M}e of" il»e yllek, 
crosswise, rilhng il uiiii sail, and plngging it U|>; then pM onf 
end into the tire and char it nearly to the sail, then tl c o^hzr 
end the same way; and finally pulverizing uud applying iLc 
Ball, the same as tiie above, once daily only. 

In cither case after the granulations (little lumps) are re- 
moved tVom the eye, or eyes, tinish the cure by using- any of 
the ibregoing eye waters which you may ch(»ose; all the 
time using some of tlie alteratives for cleansing the blood. 

FEVER SORES— PL.VSTEK, SALVES, .Vc— Hijack Sal\^. 

— Sweel oil, linseed oil, and red lea«l pulveri/.ed. of each 
1 oz. (or in these proportions). Put all into an iron dish over a 
moderate tire, stirring constantly, until you can <lra\v your tingei 
over a drop of it on a board when a liiile cool, wiliioui slicking. 
Si)reud on cloth and apply as other salves. 

My brother, J. M. (jhase, of Cancadea, N. Y. says he liaa 
used this salve about tifrccn years, and knows it tu be one oi 
the best in the world tor all kinds oi" old sores, as ulcers, 
fever sores, and all inflamed parts, cleaidng and taking out 
redness or inflammation, causing a white healthy appearance 
in a short time, and a certain preventive of mortification ive., 
itc, as well as to prevent soreness in more recent cuts and 
bruises, also; and frotn tny own ktiowledge of a salve which 
is very similar, i have ititroduced it into this work, feeling 
assured that whoever uiay have occasion to try it, will not 
regret tlie space it occu|)ies, especially after reaiiing the fol- 
lowing: A gentlemyn said to uje during the past suujiner, 
** I will give you one ol' the most valuable salves tn the woild, 
for I cured a man's hand, with it, which was so suM»llen iI il 
it looked more like a ham than a hand ; and two Doctors 
said it must be cut off, also ulcerated.'* When he told me 
bo\\ it was made, I o]K;ned my book to the above salve, 
which was precisely the same as tlie one he uscvl. 

2. llfciD SALVb:. — Some prefer to ]irepare the salve as fol- 
lows : 

K*"l lead 1 lb.; bees-wav and rosin, of each ? ozs. ; linseei 
and sweet oils, of each »^» tablespoons ; spirits o| nnpenii*' 1 
tea-.^t>(K)n ; melt all, except ihe first and last, together, tbenstij 
Ui tU^ lead aud stir until oool, adding the turpeniiua 



lt>0 Da. cHASE'a a£cir£H. 

Used upon fever, and all othur sores of an inflamTnatory 
character ; at the same time tAing the following pill to 
purify the blood : 

3. ^Manduake root, dried and pulverized, J oz. ; blood root, ip 
the same way, i oz. ; form into pills with extract of dandelion. 
Dose— Three pills may be taken at bed time, for 2 or 3 daja, 
then add another pill, and at the end of a week take any cathar 
tic you choose; then take iodide of potash 10 grs,, and put it 
into a vial with 1 oz. of water, and take 20 to 30 drops of it in a 
iiule more water, instead of the mandrake pill, for ii or 4 days,- 
tLcn that pill again, as at first. 

j>y the time you have gone around three or four timcji, 
the blood will be pretty thoroughly cleansed — do not bo 
afraid of the mandrake pill, as it will not act as a cathartic, 
but simply work upon the blood — if it does, r« duce the 
number. You will be pleased with this method s.^f purifi 
cation 

4. Indian Cure.— G. A. Patterson, of Asht^hu^a, 0, 
was cured by an Indian physician, in Cleveland, of ci-e of 
the worst iever sores ahnost ever kpown. The musolep of 
his leg were so contracted that no u^e could be made of hia 
leg in getting about. Four months, and the following treat 
me Lit, did the work : 

A syrup of Wahoo (Euorjymus Atropurpurcns) — and liore I'^t 
me say that the Wahoo is the groat Indian remedy for puritying 
the hh)oil — was made by boiling very strong, then molasses ana 
rum a(kled to make it palatable and*^ keep it from souring ; this 
was used sufiieient to keep the bowels solvent, sometimes chew* 
:ng the bark of llie root Irom which the syrup is made, prefer- 
ring it a partoi the lime to the syrup. The sore was dressed 
with the toUowing salve: Uosin 1 lb.; mutt<m tallow 1 IVj. ; bees- 
wax 1 lb.; linseed oil 1 pt. ; ambrosial (highly tlav^ored) soap IJ 
ozs. ; to make it, mix in an iron kettle and simmer 2 hours, stir- 
ring all the tiriie. Si)read on cloth, and apply as needed. The 
contracted muscles were anointed with skunk's oil only. 

Mr. Patterson also extols it very highly for all common 
purposes. And as I have a few other recipes for fever eorea 
which have been so highly recommended by those who have 
used them, I cannot omit their insertion, and I would espe- 
cially recommend the next one following, called : 

5. Kitkidoe's Salve. — Bitter-sweet and sweet elder rr»ots, of 
eax'h l^ llw. ; liop vines and leaves, and garden plantain, top and 
root, of each i lb. ; tobacco 1 Uiree-cent plug. Boil all iu rain 
vater to get out the «trengtU ; then put the herl>siD a thick cl/-U» 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 161 

and press out the jiiice, and boil down carefully t^ i pt. ; then 
ftdd unsalted butter 1 lb. ; bees-wax and rosin, of each 1 oz., and 
fiimmer over a slow fire until the water is all out. 

~I obtained the above from S. B. Newton, a farmer Doctor 
near Mooreville, Mich., who had cured fever sores, with it, 
of thirty-five years' standing ; used it also on swellings in 
every case, once upon a boy who had an eye kicked out and 
swelled very bad ; he keeps it in his stable all the time foi 
wounds of horses and cattle, in castration, &c., &c. I kno^ 
it must be a very valuable salve. 

6. Fever Sore PouLTicE.—Sassafras, bark of the root, drie i 
and pulverized very fine ; make a bread and milk poultice quitd 
thin, and stir in of the above powder to make it of proper con 
fiistence, applying 8 times in the 24 hours for 3 weeks ; then heal 
with a salve made by thickening honey to a salve with whea* 
<lour. 

If there are loose bones it will be quite sore wh.le they 
are working out, but persevere. A case was cured by it of 
twelve years' standing ; the same man cured eight other 
cases, never having a failure, and it has proved successful 
on an abscess of the loins also. 

7. Yeast Poultice.— Fresh yeast, the thick part, thickened 
with flour and applied to fever sores has proved very valuable, 
coutmuing it ibr several weeks, touching any pomts, which does 
not heal readily, with finely pulverized verdigris rubbed up with 
a litt.lb lard ; then putting the poultice directly over the whole 
again. 

This heals, leaving the parts white and natural, instead of 
dark, as I have seen many cases which had been cured. 

8. Salve for Fever Sores, Abscesses, Broken Breasts, 
&c.— Thoroughly steep tobacco i oz., in soft water 1 pt., strain- 
ing out from the tobacco and boiling down to 1 gill ; then have 
melted, lard, rosin, and bees- wax, of each i oz. simmering to a 
thick salve, then stirring in 1 gill of old rum, and, if necessary, 
continuing the simmering a little longer. To be used as other 
salves. 

9. Ointment. — Sweet clover (grown in gardens) stewed in 
ti*rd ; then add bees-wax and white pine turpentine, equal parts, 
k> form an ointment, is highly recommended. 

10. Salve for Fever Sores, Cuts, i&;c.--Spirits of turpentine 
und honey, of each i pt., simmered over a slow fire until they 
imite by stirring ; then set aside to cool until you caii put in the 
folk of an egg without its being cooked by the heat ; stir it in 
and return it to the fire, adding camphor gum J oz.> simmer and 
ecir until well mixed. 

6— COPT right securjio 



162 I> sE'S RECirE6. 

By putting in the egg wlien cool, it combines with the 
other, but if pui in while the salve is hot it cooks, but docM 
not combine. This is very highly recommended, as abovg 
indicated. 

11. William Howell, a farmer living about six milei 
from Jackson, Mich., says he had a fever sore on his shio 
for twenty years, sometimes laying him up for months, an^i 
at one time preparations were made to cut off the limb, bu 
an old man, in New Jersey, told him to : 

Scrape a fresh turnip and apply it every 4 hours, night an^ 
day, until healed, which cured him. 

And he feels assured, from using it in other cases, that 
all will be pleased with it who have any occasion for its use 
Apply it oftener if it becomes too offensive. 

SALVES.— Green Mountain Salve. — Rosin 5 lbs.; Bur- 
gimdy pitch, bees-wax, and mutton tallow, of each i lb. ; oil of 
hemlock, balsam of fir, oil of origanum, oil of red cedar, and 
Venice turpentine, of each 1 oz. ; oil of wormwood i oz. ; ver- 
digris, very finely pulverized, 1 oz. ; melt the first articles to- 
gether and add tlie oils, having rubbed the verdigris up with a 
little of the oils, and put it in with the other articles, stirring 
well ; then pour into cold water and work as wax until co(3 
enough to roll. 

This salve has no equal for rheumatic pains, or weakness 
in the side, back, shoulders, or any place where pain may lo- 
cate itself. Where the skin is broken, as in ulcers, and bruises^ 
I use it without the verdigris, making a white salve, even 
superior to ^^ Peleg Vv^hite's old salve.^^ ic is valuable in 
Dyspepsia, to put a plaster of the green salve over the stom- 
ach, and wear it as long as it will stay on, apun the baoK 
also, or any place where pain or weakness raay locate, in 
cuts, bruises, abrasions, &c., spread the white salve upon 
cloth and apply it as a sticking plaster until ;vell ; for rheu- 
matism or weakness, spread the green salve upon soft leather 
aad apply, letting it remain on as long as it will stay. For 
corns, spread the green salve upon cloth and put upon the 
corn, letting it remain until cured. It has cured them. 

A gentleman near Lancaster, 0., obtained one of my 
books having this recipe in it, and one year afterwards he 
told me he had sold over four-thousand rolls of the salve, 
curing an old lady of rheumatism in six weeks, who ha4 



MEDICAL DEP/ ^^ 163 

been confined to her bed for seven weeks, covering all the 
the large joints with the salve, without other treatment, 
For rolling out salves, see the cut below. 

2. Conklin's Celebrated SALVE.—Rosin 41bs. ; bees-wax, 
burgundy pitch, white pine turpentine, and mutton tallow, each 
i lb. ; camphor gum and balsam ot fir, of each i oz. ; sweet oil 
I oz. ; and alcohol i pt. Melt, mix, roll out, and use as other 
fialves. Wonders have been done with it. 

8. Balm op Gilead Salve. — Mutton tallow i lb. ; balm of 
gilead buds 2 ozs. ; white pine gum 1 oz. ; red precipitate ^ oz. ; 
hard soap i oz. ; white sugar 1 table-spoon. Stew the buds in 
the tallow until the strength is obtained, and press out or strain, 
scrape the soap and add it with the other articles to the tallow, 
using sufficient unsalted butter or sweet oil to bring it to a proper 
consistence to spread easily upon cloth. When nearly cool, stir 
m the red precipitate, mixing thoroughly. 

This may be more appropriately called an ointment. It 
th used for cuts, scalds, bruises, &c., and for burns by spread- 
ing very thin — if sores get proud flesh in them, sprinkle a 
little burned alum on the salve before applying it. It has 
been in use in this county about forty years, with the great- 
est success. 

4. Adhesive Plaster, or Salve, for Deep Wounds, Cuts, 
fee, IN Place of Stitches. — White rosin 7 ozs. ; bees- wax and 
mutton tallow, of each i oz. ; melt all together, then pour into 
cold water and work as wax mitil thoroughly mixed, then roll 
out into suitable sticks for use. 

It may be spread upon firm cloth and cut into narrow 
strips. In case of deep wounds, or cuts, it will be found to 
firmly hold them together, by first pressing one end of a 
Bt-rip upon one side of the wound until it adheres, then draw 
the edges of the wound closely together, and press down 
the other end of the strip until it adheres also. The strips 
should reach three or four inches upon each side of the cut, 
imd run in difierent directions across each other, to draw 
every part of the wound firmly in contact It will crack 
easily after being spread until applied to the warm flesh, ye 
if made any softer it cannot be be depended upon lor an_^ 
[engtb of time, but as it is, it has been worn as a strength- 
ening plaster, and remained on over a year. 

5. Peleg White's Old Salve. — This, formerly ceie- 
br&tedj salve was composed of only three very simple articles 



Iftft DR. CHASE 8 RECIPE3 

Our *^ Green Mountain Salve*' is far ahead of it, yet for tin 
satisfaction of its old friends I give you its composition : 

Rosin 3 lbs. ; mutton tallow ana oceswax, oi each i lb. ; mel) 
f d together and poured mto cold water, then pulled, and workec 
as ihoe-makers wax. 

It was recommended for old sores, cuts, bruises, diou 
r atic-plasters, &c., &c. 




APPARATUS FOR MAKING SALVES AND LOZENGES 

The above cut represents a board prepared with strijfws 
apon it of the depired thickness for the diameter of the rolls 
of salve, also a piece of board with a handle, with which to 
roil tUe salve when properly cooled for that purpose, 'ihe 
salve Ls laid between the strips, which are generally one ineh 
thick, then, with the handle piece, roll it until that board 
comes down upon the strips which makes the rolls all of one 
size, use a little tallow to prevent sticking to the boards or 
hands ; then cut oi3f the desired length and put a label upon 
them, to prevent them sticking to each other. 

A roller, and tin-cutter, is also represented in the same 
cut, with which, and another board, having thin strips upon 
it to correspond with the thickness of lozenges required, 
you can roll the mass down until the roller touches the 
strips ; and thus you can get them as well as ihe salve, of 
uniform thickness; then cut out with the cutter, laying 
them upon paper until dry. 

YERMFUGES.— Santonin Lozenges.— Santonin 60 grs.; 
pulverized sugar 5 ozs. ; mucilage of gum tragacanth sufficient 
to make into a thick paste, worked carefully together, that the 
Bantonin shall he cveiily mixed throughout the whole mas8' 



MEDICAL DEPARTxMiLNT^ 165 

then, if not in too great a hurry, cover up the mortar i^ which 
you have rubbed them, and let stand from 12 to 24 hours to tem- 
per; ac which time they will roll out better than if done imme- 
diately; divide into 120 lozenges. See apparatus, above, for 
rolling, and cutting out. Dose — For a child 1 year old, 1 
lozenge, night and morning ; of 2 years, 2 lozenges ; of 4 years, 
8 ; of 8 years, 4 ; of 10 years or more 5 to 7 lozenges ; m aU 
cases, to be taken twice daily, and continuing until the worms 
Start on a voyage of discovery. 

A gentleman came into the drug store one morning, with 
the remark, " Do you know what your lozenges have been 
doing V As though they had killed some one, the answer 
was, no, is there anything wrong; he held up both hands 
together, scoop shovel style, saying, " They fetched away 
the worms by the double handful.^' It is needless to at- 
tempt to give the symptoms by which the presence of worms 
might be distiuguished ; for the symptoms of nearly every 
other disease is, sometimes^ manifested by their presence- 
But if the belly be quite hard and unusually large, with a 
peculiar and disagreeable breath, in the morning, foul or 
furred tongue, upper lip swollen, itching of the nose and 
anus, milky white urine, bowels sometimes obstinately cos- 
tive, then as obstinately loose, with a craving appetite, then 
loathing food at times; rest assured that worm medicine 
will not be amiss, whether the person be child, or adult. It 
would be well to take a mild cathartic after four to six days 
use of the lozenges, unless the worms have passed off suffi- 
ciently free before that time, to show their general destruc- 
tion. Very high praise has also been given to the follow- 
ing : 

2. Vermifuge Oil — Prof. Freeman's. — In the May 
number of the Eclectic Medical Journal of Cincinnati, 0., 
I find so valuable a vermifuge from Prof. Z. Freeman, that 
I must be excused for its insertion, as the articles can always 
be obtained, whilst in some places you might not be able to 
^et the santonin called for in the lozenges. His remarks 
following the recipe will make all needed explanations, and 
give confidence in the treatment. 

The explanations in brackets are my own, according to 
the custom through the whole work. 

** Toke oil of chenopodii, -J oz. (oil of worm-seed,) ; oil of tcr- 
ftiainth, 2 drs. (oil of turpentine,); oil of ricini, li ozs. (castor 



166 DR. chase's recipes. 

oil,) ; fluid extract of spigelia, i oz. (pink) hydrastin 10 gra. \ 
eyrup of menth. pip. ^ oz. (syrup of peppermint.) Dose — To a 
child 10 years of age, a tea-spoon 3 times a day, 1 hour befoi-e 
each meal ; if it purges too freely, give it less often. 

^' This is an excellent vermifuge, tonic, and cathartic, and 
has never failed (as well as I can judge,) to eradicate worms, 
if any were present, when administered for that purpose 
I have given no other vermifuge for the last five years, and 
often one tea-spoon has brought away from three to twenty 
of the lumbrica. Only a few days ago I prescribed one 
fluid drachm of it, (about one tea-spoon,) and caused the ex- 
pulsion of sixty lumbricoids, and ono fluid drachm, taken a 
few days afterwards, by the same child, brought away forty 
more, some of them six inches in length. Where no worms 
are present, it answers the purpose of a tonic, correcting the 
condition of tlie mucus membrane of thi3 stomach and bow- 
els, improving the appetite and digestion, and operating as a 
mild cathartic.*^ 

3. Worm Tea. — Carolina pink-root, senna leaf, manna, and 
American worm-seed, of each -i oz. ; bruise and pour on boilinsj 
w^ater 1 pt., and steep without boiling. Sweeten well, add halt 
fes much milk. Dose — A child of live years, may take 1 gill 3 
times daily, before meals, or suHicient to move the bowels rather 
freely. 

If this does not carry oflf any worms, wait one day and 
lepeat the operation ; but if the bowels do not move by the 
first day's work, increase the dose and continue to give it 
until that end is attained before stopping the medicine. 
This plan will be found an improvement upon the old where 
the lozenges or oil cannot be obtained, as above. 

4. Worm Cake— English Remedy. — V/heat flour a^id jalap, 
of each i lb. ; calomel, grain-tin, and ginger, of each 1 oz. j\[ix 
thoroughly and wet up as dough, to a^proper consistence to roll 
gut ; then roll out as lozenge cakes, to three-sixtecDXhs of an 
mch in thickness ; then cut out f inch square and dry them. 
Dose — For a child from 1 to 2 years, f of a cake ; 4 to 5 years, 1 
enke ; from 5 to 7 years, 11 cakes; from 7 to 10, H; from 10 tc 
12, If; from 12 to 14, 2; from 14 to 17, 2^; from 17 to 10 years, 
and all above that age, 2i cakes, but ail men above that age 3 
cakes. 

^- Children may eat them, or they can be shaved oF very 
fine and mixed in a little treacle, honey, or pre^iTCS. If 
ai'ter taking the first dose, they do not work a^ you desicft 



MEDICAL DKPAKTMfiNT. 167 

increase the dose a little. The patient to take the medicine 
twfce a week — Sundays and Wednesdays. To be taken in 
the morning, fasting, and to be worked oif with a little warm 
tea, water gruel, or warm broth. N. B. — Milk must not be 
used in working them oiF, and be careful of catching cold.— 
Snodin, Printer y Oakham^ Eng^ 

I obtained the above of an English family who praised it 
very highly as a cathartic for common purposes, as well aa 
for worms. And ail who are willing to take calomel^ I have 
no doubt will be pleased with its operations. 

TAPE-WORM. — Simple, but Effectual Remedy. 
—-This, very annoying and distressing, worm has been re- 
moved by taking two ounce doses of common pumpkin-seeds, 
pulverized, and repeated every four or five hours, for four or 
five days ; spirits of turpentine, also in doses of one-half 
to two ounces, with castor oil, have proved very efiectual ; 
the root of the male fern, valerian, bark of the pomegranate 
root, &c., have been used with success. But my chief 
object in speaking upon this subject, is to give the successes 
of Drs. Beach, of New York, and Dowler, of Beardstown, 
111., from their singularity and perfect eradication of the 
worm, in both cases : The first is from " Beaches American 
Practice, and Family Physician,^' a large work, of three 
Volumes, costing Twenty Dollars, consequently not generally 
circulated ; whilst the latter is taken from the " Eclectic 
Medical and College Journal,^' of Cincinnati, and therefore 
only taken by physicians of that school. The last was first 
published by the '* New Orleans Medical and Surgical Jour- 
nal." First then. Dr. Beach says : 

" The symptoms of a tape-worm, as related to me by 
Miss Dumouline, who had suiSered with it for twenty- five 
years, are in substance as follows : It commenced at the ago 
of ten, and afflicted her to the age of thirty-five. The 
worm often made her distressingly sick at the stomach ; she 
would sometimes vomit blood and be taken suddenly ill, ani 
occasionally while walking. It caused symptoms of many 
other diseases, great wasting of the flesh, &c. Her appetite 
was very capricious, being at times good, and then poor for 
months, during which time her symptoms were much aggra- 
vated ; sickness, vomiting, great pain in the chest, stomach 



Its I>R- CHASES RECIPES. 

and side, motion in the stomach, and also in the bowels, witfe 
pain, a sense of fullness or swelling, and beating or throb- 
bing in the same, dizziness, heaviness of the eyes ; — and 
she was altogether so miserable that she feared it would des- 
troy her. When she laced or wore anything tight, it pro- 
duced great distress. The worm appeared to rise up in her 
throat and sicken her. Her general health was very bad. 
At intervals, generally some time after taking medicine 
pieces of the worm would pass from the bowels, — often as 
many as forty^during the day, all alive, and would swim in 
water. 

" Treatment. — Miss Dumouiine stated that she had employed 
twenty physicians, at different periods, and taken a hundred dif- 
ferent kinds of medicine without expelling the worm. She had 
taken spirits of turpentine, but could not retain it upon the 
stomach. Under these circumstances I commenced my ti-eat- 
ment. Cowage sMpped from the pod, a small tea-spoon three 
times a day, to be taken, fasting, in a little arrow-root jelly ; 
then occasionally a purgative of mandrake. In connection with 
this, 1 directed her to eat freely of garlic, and common fine salt. 
I gave these under the belief that each article poseessed vermi- 
fuge properties, without ever having administered them for the 
tape- worm. After having taken them for some time, all her 
unfavorable symptoms ceased, and subsequently the remaining 
portion of the worm passed lifeless fi'oni her — an unprecedented 
chcumstance. 

^' She immediately recovered, and has since retained her 
health, and there is no evidence that there is any remaining 
The patient stated that the worm which passed from her du- 
ring the time she was afflicted with it, would fill a peck 
measure, and reach one mile in length. Her relief and grati- 
tude may be better imagined than described. I have a por- 
tion of this worm in my possession. When once the tape- 
worm begins to pass the bowels, care must be taken not uO 
break it off, for it will then grow again — it has this peculiai 
property." 

2. Secondly, Dr. Dowler says : " The subject of this 
notice is a daughter of Mr. E. Fish, of Beardstown, 111, 
about six years old. The only point of special interest in 
the case consists in the efficiency of the remedy — to me 
wholly new, and accidentally brought to my notice — whieh 
was used in its treatmeut. 

'^ I was treating a brother of this patient ; a part of mj 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 169 

Jrescription for whom was, as a drink, the mucilage of elm 
ark, made by putting pieces of the solid bark into water. 
The girl was seen to be frequently eating portions of the 
iark during the day ; the next morning after which, upon 
my visiting the boy, the mother, with much anxiety, showed 
me a veissci containing something that had that morning 
passetl the girl's bowels, with bits of the elm bark, enveloped 
in mucilage, which, upon examination, proved to be about 
three feet of tape-worm. As I supposed the passage of the 
worm was accidental, and had occurred from the looseness 
caused by the bark, I proceeded to prescribe what I sup- 
posed a much more potent anthelmintic, a large dose of tur- 
pentine and castor oil. The turpentine and oil were given 
several times during the three consecutive days, causing 
pretty active purging, but with no appearance of any por- 
tions of the worm. The girl being slender, and of irritable 
temperment, I was forced to desist from fuither active med- 
ications ; and partly to allay irritation of the bowels, and 
partly to test the influence of the bark on the worm, I di- 
rected that she should resume the use of the bark as before, 
bv shewing and swallowing in moderate quantities. 

** On visiting her the succeeding morning, I was shown 
portions of the worm, mostly in separate joints, that had 
been passed over night. Feeling now some conHdence in 
the aathelmintic powers of the elm bark, I directed the con- 
tinued use of it, in the solid form, as before, while there 
ehould be any portions of worm passing. In my daily calls 
for uome days, I had the satisfaction to learn that portions 
of the worm continued to pass, from day to day, and some- 
timr-^ several times a day. 

" r now ceased to vist my little patient, intending only an 
occasional visit; but my confidence in the efficacy of the 
dm hark being so well established, I advised its use to be 
continued for even two or three days after any portions 
of the worm should be seen in the evacuations. The por- 
tions of the worm expelled — even the separate joints — were 
alive showing more or less motion ; a sense of their pres- 
ence in the rectum, from their action, seemed to urge the 
patient to go to stool for their removal. 

•* Having given direction for the links or joints to be 
counted, care was taken to do so, by the mother ; and from 



170 DH. chase's recipes 

my notes of tlie case, I find that during about seven ^eckM 
of the intervening time, there had been expelled, by esti- 
mate, (taking the average lengths of the joints,) about forty- 
Jive feet of worm. At this time there had been no portions 
of the worm passed for two weeks, during which time the 
Ube of the bark had been omitted. The head of the 
worm, with about fifteen inches of the body attached, tiad 
been expelled ! But thinking that all portions of the worm 
or worms might not have been removed, I advised that the 
patient should resume the use of the bark. Very soon the 
next day, al'ter doing so, further portions commenced com 
ing away, among them one about &ix feet long, tapering to 
a thread-like termination. 

*^ The next time I took notes of the case, my estimate of 
the entire length of the worm that had been expelled, foot- 
ed up one hundred and thirty-five feet, whether one or 
more worms, I am unable to say, as in the portions I saw. 
there were a head and tail, of what I supposed one worm. 
Since the last estimate, there have been joints occasionally 
evacuated 

*' This patient, when first treated, was thin in flesh — had 
been growing so for some two years — attended with the 
usual nervous symptoms, starting out of sleep, variable ap- 
petite, cto., but with no great departure from good health. 

^^ As to the influence of this very bland a^ent in the dis- 
lodgment of the tape-worm, in this case, I think there caD 
be no doubt, whathever may be the theory of its action. 

*' The passage of portions of the worm, so promptly, od 
the use of the bark, and the ceasing to do so on the discon 
tinuance of its use — even while active purgative anthelmin- 
tics were used — leave no room to doubt its efi'ectiveness ii* 
at least this case, as a worm-expelling agent. 

** It seems probable that the bark, with its thick mucil- 
age so interposes between the animal and the inner surface 
of the bowels, as to prevent its lateral grasp on their surface . 
in consequence of which it is compelled to yield to the foroes 
naturally operating, and is carried out with the discharges. 
But as my object was simply to state the practical facts in 
thia.case, I will ofier no further reflections. 

COUGHS.— Cough Lozbkgks.— Powdered epecaouanha IW 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 171 

gra. ; kermes mineral 50 grs. ; sulphate of morphia 8 grs. ; powder- 
ed white sugar, gum arabic, and extract of licorice, of each IJ- 
ozs. ; oil of anise 20 drops ; syrup of tolu sufficient to work into 
mass form; loll out and cut into 160 lozenges. Dose — One loz- 
enge 3 times daily. — FarUh's Fliavmacy. 

The above is tho prescription of the " regulars/^ but there 
are those, perhaps who would prefer the more rational pre- 
scription of the " irregulars, ^^ next following; and there ar6 
those who would prefer the *^ Cough Candy" in place of 
either of the lozenges. By the insertion of the variety, all 
can please themselves. 

2. Cough Lozenges. — Another valuable lozenge is made as fol- 
lows: Extract of blood-root, licorice, and black cohosh, of ea<jH 
i oz, ; tinctures of ipecac and lobelia, with laudanum, of each \ 
oz. ; cayenne, powderea, 10 grs. ; pulverized gum arabic and 
starch, of each f oz. ; mix all together, and add pulverized sugar 
8 ozs. K this should be too dry to roll into lozenges, add a thick 
solution of gum arabic to give it that consistence ; and if it 
should be yet too moist, at any time, add more sugar. Divide 
into 320 lozenges. Dose— One, 3 to 6 times daily, as needed. 

3. Pulmonic Wafers. — Pulverized sugar 7 ozs. ; tincture of 
ipecac 3 drs. ; tincture of blood-root and syrup of tolu, of each 
2 drs. ; tincture of thorough wort \ oz. ; morphine 1^ grs. Dis- 
solve Xhe morphine in water \ tea-spoon, having put in sul- 
phuTit acid 2 drops ; now mix all, and add mucilage of com- 
fre;9 rcct or ginn arabic, to form a suitable paste to roll and cut 
into v^o'AiA^ni^iized wafers or lozenges. Directions. — Allow I 
to diBk\xV\'e in the mouth for a dose, or dissolve 6 in 3 tabie- 
Bpoorbj ^\ wavKi water, and take | of a spoon 6 times daily, or 
oftener if ntcvl be. 

4. Couony 5'v.om IIecent Colds — Remedy.— Linseed-oil, 
honey, and Jamaica rum, equal parts of each ; to be shaken 
when used. 

This has given very general satisfaction in recent coughs, 
but (he foUowiaig will probably give the most general satis- 
faction : 

5. Cough Mixture for Recent Colds. — Tincture of 
blood-root, syrups of ipecac and squills, tincture of balsam 
of tolu, and paregoric, equal parts of each. Dose. — Half 
of a tea-spoon whenever the cough is severe. It is a very 
valuable medicine. 

6. Cough Candy. — Tincture '^t squills 2 ozs.; camphorated 
tincture of opium, and tincture of tolu, of each \ oz. ; wine of 
ipecac \ 02. ; oils of gauUheria 4 drops, sassafras 3 drops, and of 
anise-aeed oil 2 drops. The above mixture is to be put into S 



172 Da. chase's recipes. 

Iba. of candy which is just ready to take from the fire, contin- 
uing tne boiling a little longer, so as to form into sticks. — Par^ 
is/is Pharmacy. 

Druggists will get confectioners to make this for a trifle 
on the pound over common candies, they, of course, furnish- 
ing their own compound. 

7. Cough Syrup. — Wahoo, bark of the root, and elecampane 
root, of each 2 ozs. ; spikenard root, and tamarack bark (unross- 
ed , but the moss may be brushed off,) of each 4 ozs. ; mandrake 
root i oz. ; blood-root J oz. ; mix alcohol 1 pt., with sufficient 
water to cover all, handsomely, and let stand 2 or 3 days ; then 
pour off 1 qt., putting on water and boiling twice, straining the 
two waters and boiling dov/n to 3 pts. ; when cool add 3 lbs. of 
honey, and alcoholic fluid pouied off, with tincture of wine of 
ipecac 1^ ozs. ; if the cough should be very tight, double the 
ipecac ; and wash the feet daily in warm water, rubbing them 
thoroughly with a coarse towel, and, twice a week, extending 
the washing and rubbing to the whole body. Dose. — One table- 
spoon 3 to 5 times daily. 

If the cough is very troublesome when you lie down at 
night or on waking in the morning, put tar and spirits of 
nitre, of each one tea-spoon into a four ounce vial of water 
shaking well; then at these times just sip about a tea-spoon 
from th« bottle without shaking, which will allay the tick- 
ling sensation, causing the cough. 

1 have cured a young lady, during the past winter, with 
the above syrup, whose cough had been pretty constant for 
over two years; her friends hardly expected it ever to be 
any better, but it was only necessary to make the above 
amount of syrup twice to perform the cure. 

8. Cough Tincture. — Tinctures of blood-root and bal- 
sam of tolu, of each four ounces ; tinctures of lobelia and 
digitalis, of each two ounces ; tincture of opium (laudanum^ 
one ounce ; tincture of oil of anise (oil of anise one-lialf' 
tea-spoon in an ounce of alcohol,) one ounce. Mix. Dose. 
— About one-half tea-spoon three times daily, in the same 
amount of honey, increasing to a tea-spoon if needed to 
loosen and lessen the cough. It has raised cases which 
doctors said must die, causing the patient to raise matter 
resembling the death-smell, awful indeed. It will cure 
cough, not by stopping it, but by loosening it, assisting the 
lungs and throat to throw off the offending matter, which 
causes th-e cough, acd thus zdmtifically making th« cure 



MEDICAL BEPARTMENlf. 178 

^rfect ; while most of the cough remedies kept for sale, 
stop the cough by their anodyne and constringing effects, 
retaining the mucus and all offending matters in the blood, 
causing permanent disease of the lungs. 

But, notwithstanding the known value of this *^ Cough 
Tincture/' where the tamarack and other ingredients can be 
obtained, I must give my preference to the " Cough Syrup,*' 

No. 7. 

9. Cough Pill. — Extract of hyoscyamus, balm of gilead 
^uds. with pulverized ipecac, or lobelia, and balsam of fir, of 
each i oz. ; oil of anise a few drops to form into common sized 
pills. Dose — One or 2 pills 3 or 4 times daily. 

Dr. Beach says he endeavored for more than twenty-five 
years to obtain a medicine to fulfill the indications which 
are effected in this cough pill, particularly for ordinary 
colds and coughs ; and this admirably answers the inten- 
tion, excelling all others. It allays the irritation of the 
mucus membrane, the bronchial tubes, and the lungs, and 
will be found exceedingly valuable in deep-seated coughs 
and all diseases of the chest. The bad effects of opium 
(so much used in coughs) are in this pill entirely obviated, 
and it is altogether better than the Cough Drops, which I 
now dispense with. — Beaches American Practice. 

WHOOPING COUGH— Syrup.— Onions and garlics, sliced, 
of each 1 gill ; sweet oil 1 gill ; stew them in the oil, in a covered 
dish, to obtain the juices ; then strain and add honey 1 gill ; par- 
egoric and spirits of camphor, of each i oz. ; bottle and cork 
tight for use. Dose — For a child of 2 or 3 years, 1 tea-spoon 
8 or 4 times daily, or whenever the cough is troublesome, in- 
creasing or lessening, according to age. 

This is a granny^s prescription, but I care not from what 
Gource I derive information, if it gives the satisfaction that 
this has done, upon experiment. This lady has raised a 
large family of her own children, and grand children in 
abundance. We have tried it witL three of our children 
also, and prescribed it in many other cavSes with satisfaction, 
for over seven years. It is excellent also in common colds 
eUended with much cough. This is from experience, too, 
l^hom I have found a vQry competent teacher. 

It is said that an European physician has discovered that 
the dangerous symptoms of whooping cough are due to sup- 



174 DK. chase's EEOIPBS.f 

pressed cutaneous eruptions, and that an external irritant 
or artificial rash, is a sure remedy. See " Small Pox/' 

2. Dailey's Whooping Cough Sykup. — Take the strongesj^ 
"West India rum, 1 pt. ; anise oil 2 ozs. ; honey 1 pt. ; lemon 
juice 4 ozs. ; mix. Dose — For adults 1 table-spoon 3 or 4 times 
a day,— children, 1 tea-spoon, with as much sugar and water. 

He says that he has successfully treated more than one 
hundred cases with this syrup. 

8. SOKENESS OR HOAPtSSNESS FROM COUGHS. — REMEDY. • 

Spikenard root, bruised and steeped in a tea-pot, by using half 
water and half spirits ; then inhaling the steam, when not too hot, 
by breathing through the spout, will relieve the soreness and 
hoarseness of the luugs, or throat, arising from much coughing. 

IN-GROWING TOE NAIL— To Cure.— We take tU 
following remedy for a very common and very painful afflic- 
tion, from the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal: 

•' The patient on whom I first tried this plan was a young 
lady who had been unable to put on a shoe for several 
months, and decidedly the worst I have ever seen. The 
edge of the nail was deeply undermined, the granulations 
formed a high ridge, partly covered with the skin ; and pua 
constantly oozed from the root of the nail, The whole toe 
was swollen and extremely painful and tender. My mode 
of proceeding was this : 

*' I put a very small piece of tallow in a spoon, and heated U 
^ntil it became very hot, and poured it on the granulations. 
The effect was almost magical. Pain and tenderness were at 
once relieved, and in a few days the granulations were all gone, 
the diseased parts diy and destitute of all feeling, and the edge 
of the nail exposed so as to admit of being pared away without 
any inconvenience. The cure was complete, and the trouble 
never returned. 

" I have tried the plan repeatedly since, with the sama 
satisfactory results. The operation causes but little pam, if 
the tallow is properly heated. A repetition in some casea 
might be necessary, although I have never met with a cause 
that did not yield to one application .'' It has now been 
proven, in many other cases, to be efiectual, accomplishing 
in one minute, without pain, all that can be effected by th6 
painful application of nitrate of silver for several weekH.'"* 

OILS — British Oil. — Linseed and turpentine oils, of eacb % 
023.; oils of amber and juniper, of each 4 ozs. ; Barbadoea tar 
% oza. ; seneca oU 1 oz, ; WlX. 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 175 

fhis IS an old prescription, but it is worth the whole 
toat of this book to any one needing an application for cuts, 
brniseSj swellings, and sores of almost every description, on 
persons, horses, or cattle ; so is the following, also : 

2. Balm of Gilead Oil.. — Balm of Gilead buds any quantity ; 
place tkem in a suitable disn for stewing, and pour upon them 
sufficient sweet oil to just cover them; stew thoroughly and 
press out all of the oil from the buds, and bottle for use. 

It will b« found very valuable as a healing oil, or lari 
can be used in place of the oil, making an excellent oint- 
xnent for cuts, bruises, &c. 

3. Harlem Oil, or Welch Medicamentum. — Sublimed or 
flowers of sulphur and oil of amber, of each 2 qz, ; linseed 
oil 1 lb. ; spirits of turpentine sufficient to reduce all to the con- 
sistence of thin molasses. Boil the sulphur in the linseed oO 
until it is dissolved, then add the oil of amber and tiu^ea- 
tine. Dose — Ftowl 15 to 25 drops, morning and evening. 

Amongst the Welch and Germans it is extensively used 
for strengthening the stomach, kidneys, liver and lungs, 
asthma, shortness of breath, cough, inward or outward 
sores, dropsy, worms, gravel, fevers palpitation of the 
heart, giddiness, head-ache, &c., &c., by taking it inter- 
nally; and for ulcers, malignant sores, cankers, &c., anoint- 
ing externally, and wetting linen with it and applying to 
burns. In fact, if one-half that is said of its value is 
true, no other medicine need ever be made. It has this 
much in its favor, however, — probably no other medicine 
now in use, has been in use half so long, — over 160 years. 
The dose for a child is one drop for each year of its age. 

4. Oil of Spike. — The genuine oil of spike is made from the 
l&*^ndula spica (broad leaved lavender,) but the commercial oil of 
ipike is made by taking the rock oil, and adding 2 ozs. of spirita 
oi turpentine to each pint. 

The rock oil which is obtained in Ohio, near Warren, is 
thicker and better than any other which I have ever used. 

5. Black Oils. — ^Best alcohol, tincture of arnica, British oilf 
and oil of tar, of each 2 ozs., and slowly add sulphuric acid i oz. 

These black oils are getting into extensive use, as a lini- 
ment, and are indeed valuable, especially in cases attended 
\eitb much infl.ammation. 

6. Ajiother Method — Is to take sulphuric acid 2 ozs. ; nitric 
tcid 1 oz. ; quicksilver i oz. ; put them together in a quart bot- 



176 D3. GHASE 8 RECIPES, 

tie, or an open crock until dissolved ; then slowlj^ add olive oil 
and spirits of turpentine, of each i pt., putting in the oil first. 
Let the work be done out of doors to avoid the fumes arising 
from the mixture ; when all is done, bottle and put in all the 
cotton cloths it will dissolve, when it is fit for use. 

The mixture becomes quite hot, altLougn no heat is used 
in making it, from setting free what is called latent, or 
Unsensible heat, by their combining togetner. Rev. Mr. 
Way, of Plymouth, I^iich., cured himself of sore throal 
by taking a few drops of this black oil upon sugar, letting 
it slowly dissolve upon the tongue, each evening after 
preaching, also wetting cloths and binding upon the neck. 
it will be necessary to avoid getting it upon cotton or linen 
which you would not wish to show a stain. A colt which 
had a fistulous opening between the hind legs, from a snag, 
as supposed, which reduced him so that he had to be lifted 
up, when down, was cured by injecting twice only, of this 
oil to fill the diseased place. Also a very bad fever sore, 
apon the leg, ah ! Excuse me, upon the limh of a young 
lady, which baffled the scientific skill of the town in which 
she livedo In case they bite too much in any of their ap- 
plications, wet a piece of brown paper in water and lay it 
over the parts. 

OPODELDOC— Liquid. — Best brandy 1 qt. ; warm it and add 
gum camphor 1 oz. ; salamraoniac and oil of wormwood, of each 

1 oz. ; oils of origanum and rosemary, of each \ oz. ; when the 
* oils are dissolved by the aid of the heat, add soft soap 6 oz. 

Its uses are too well known to need further description. 

DIARRHEAS— Cordial.— The best rhubarb root, pulver- 
ized, 1 oz. ; peppermint leaf 1 oz. ; capsicum i oz. ; cover with 
boiling water and steep thoroughly, strain, and add bi-carbonate 
of potash and essence of cinnamon, of each i oz. ; with brandy 
(or good whisky) equal in amount to the whole, and loaf sugar 
4 oz. Dose — For an adult 1 to 2 table-spoons ; for a child 1 t j 

2 tea-spoons, from 3 to 6 times per day, until relief is obtained 

This preparation has been my dependence, in my travel* 
and in my family for several years, and it has never failed 
us ; but in extremely bad cases it might be well to use, after 
each passage, the following : 

2. Injection for Chronic Diarrhea.— New milk, with thick 
mucilage of slippery elm, of each 1 pt. ; sweet oil 1 gill ; molas- 
ses i pt. ; salt 1 oz. ; laudanum 1 dr. Mix, and inject what th« 
Dowelfl will retain. 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT, 177 

Very many children, as well as grown persons die, annu- 
ally, of this disease, who might be saved by a proper use 
of the above injection and cordial. The injection should 
never be neglected, if there is the least danger apprehended. 

Although I believe these would not fail in one case out 
of one hundred, yet I have some other prescriptions which 
are so highly spoken of, I will give a few more. The first 
from Mr. Hendee, of Warsaw, Indiana, for curing Diarrhea, 
or Bloody Flux, as follows : 

3. DiRARRHEA TiNCTURE. — Compound tincture of myrrh 6 
ozs. ; tincture of rhubard, and spirits of lavender, of each 5 ozs. ; 
tincture of opium 3 ozs. ; oils of anise and cinnamon, with gum 
camphor and tartaric acid, ot each i oz. Mix. Dose — One 
tea-spoon in i a tea-cup of warm water sweetened with loaf 
sugai* ; repeat after each passage. 

He says he has cured many cases after given up by phy- 
cians. It must be a decidedly good preparation. Or, 
again : 

4. Diarrhea Drops. — Tincture of rhubarb, and compound 
spirits of lavender, of each 4 ozs. ; laudanum 2 ozs. ; cinnamon 
oil 2 drops. Mix. Dose— One tea-spoon every 3 or 4 hours, 
according to the severity of the case. 

This speaks from ten years successful experience. 

5. Diarrhea Syrup — For Cases brought on by Long- Con- 
tinued Use op Calomel. — Boxwood, black cherry and prickly 
Ash barks, with dandelion root, of each 2 ozs ; butternut bark 1 
oz. ; boil thoroughly, strain and boil down to 1 qt. ; then add 
loaf sugar 2 lbs., and alcohol 1 gill, or brandy i pt. Dose — A 
wine-glass from 3 to 5 times daily, according to circumstances. 

This regulates the bowels and tones up the system at the 
same time, no matter whether loose or costive. In one case 
of costiveness it brought a man around all right who had 
been sowed up tight for, twelve days. On the other hand, 
it has regulated the system after months of calomel-Diarrhea. 

6. WiNTERGREEN Berries havc been found a valuable cor- ' 
rector of Diarrhea brought on by the long-continued use of cal- 
omel In cases of fever, eating a quart of them in 3 days time, i 

The gentleman of whom I obtained this item tells me 
that wintergreen essence has done the same thing, when the 
berries could not be obtained. In the first place, " every- 
thing else," as the saying is, had been tried in vain, and the 
oiaxi's wife, in coming across the woods, found thes« berrioa 
Dft. chase's regipes. 



178 DR. chase's BE0IPE8 

t 

and picked somej which when the husband saw, he craved^ 

and would not rest without them, and, notwithstanding ihe 
fears of friends, they cured him. Many valuable discove- 
ries are made in a similar manner. 

7. Dried Whortleberries, steeped, and the juice drajik 
freely, has cured Diarrhea and Bloody Flux, both in children and 
adults. 

8. Diarrhea and Canker Tea. — Pulverized hemlock bark^ 
(it is generally kept by Druggists,) 1 table-spoon, steeped m hall 
a tea-cup of water. 

For young children, in Diarrhea, or Canker, or w/icn they 
are combined, feed a tea-spoon of it, or less, acccnamg to 
the child's age, two or three times daily, until cured. To 
oveicome costiveness, which may arise from its uae, scorch 
fresh butter, and give it in place of oil, and in <)uantities 
corresponding with oil. Children have been &iived with 
three cents worth of this bark which ^' Alopath'^ said must 
die. If good for children, it is good for adults, by simply 
increasing the dose. 

9. Sumac bobs, steeped and sweetened with loaf sugar, has 
been found very valuable for Diarrhea ; adding in very severe 
cases, alum pulverized, a rounding tea-spoon, to 1 pt. of the 
strong tea. Dose — A tea, to a table-spoon, according to the age 
of the child, and the severity of the case. 

It saved the life of a child when two M. D/s (Mule Dri- 
vers,) said it could not be saved. 

CHOLERA TINCTURE.— Select the thinest cinnamon bark, 
cloves, gum gauiac, all pulverized, of each 1 oz. ; very best 
brandy 1 qt. Mix, and shake occasionally for a week or two. 
Dose^ — A tea-spoon to a table-spoon for an adult, according to 
the condition and robustness or strength of the system. It may 
be repeated at intervals of 1 to 4 hours, if necessary, or mucL 
more often, according to the condition of the bowels. 

This I have from an old railroad-boss who used it with his 
* men during the last Cholera in Ohio, and never lost a man. 
whilst other jobbers left the road, or lost their men in abund 
ance, thinking the above too simple to be of any value. 

2. Isthmus Cholera Tincture, — Tincture of rhubarb, cay- 
enne, opium, and spirits of camphor, with essence of pejjper- 
mint, equal parts of each, and each as strong as can be made 
Dose — From 5 to 30 drops, or even to 60, and repeat until relief 
la obtained, every 5 to 30 minutes. 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 1/9 

C. fl. Cuyler, wlio was detained upon the Isthmus du- 
ring the cholera period, was saved by this prescription, as 
alsw many others. 

3 Cholera Preventive. — Hoffman's anodjTie and essence 
of peppermint, of each 2 ozs. ; tincture of ginger 1 oz. ; lauda- 
nun , spirits of camphor, and tincture of cayenne, of each i oz. ; 
mix. Dose — For an adult, from a tea to a table-spoon, accor- 
ding o symptoms. 

4. » Cholera Cordial. — Chloroform, spirits of camphor, laud- 
anuna and aromatic spirits of ammonia, of each 1 dr. ; cinna- 
mon water 2 ozs. ; mix. Dose. — From 1 tea to a table-spoon, 
to be "Vrell shaken, and taken with sweetened water. 

5. Gi^RMAN Cholera Tincture. — Sulphuric ether 2 ozs. ; 
and x>m into it castor and gentian, of each i oz. ; opium and 
agaric, ^ach 1 dr. ; gum camphor | oz. ; let them stand 2 days, 
tlien adii alcohol 1 qt., and let stand 14 days, when it is ready 
for use. Dose. — One tea-spoon every 15 '^©r 20 minutes, accor- 
dmg to \ne urgency of the case. 

I obtained this prescription of a German at Lawrence- 
burgh, liid., who had done very much good with it during 
the last cholera period in that place. 

6. Egyi riAN Cure for Cholefa. — Best Jamaica ginger root, 
bruised; 1 )z. ; cayenne 2 tea-spoons ; boil all in 1 qt. of water 
to i pt., aud add loaf sugar to fonn a thick syrup. Dose. — One 
table-spoow every 15 minutes, until vomiting and purging ceases, 
then follow up with a blackberry tea. 

The foregoing was obtained of a physician who practiced 
in E,c;ypt, (^not the Illinois Figypt,) during the great devas-* 
tation of the cholera tb^rf", with which he saved many 
lives. 

7. India .VRFscRiPTio.>f yor Cholera. — First dissolve gum 
camphor i o/. \n 1 J ozs. of alcohol — second, give a tea spoon of 
spirits of ha'^tshorn in a wine glass of water, and follow it every 
5 minutes wi^h 15 drops of the camphor, in a tea-spoon of wa- 
ter, for 3 do.ses, then wait 15 minutes, and commence again as 
before, and continue the camphor for 30 minutes, unless there is 
returning heat, ^^hould this be the case, give one more dose 
and the cnre is effected; let them perspire freely, (which the 
medicine is designed to cause,) as upon this the life depends, but 
ftdd no additional clothing. 

Lady Ponsonby, who had spent several years in India, 
and had proved the efficacy of the foregoing, returned to 
Dublin in 1882, and published it in the Dublin 3Iail, for 
the benefit of her countrymen, declaring that she never 
knew it to fail. 



180 DK. ClIAbE's RECIPES. 

I would say, be very sure you have the cholera, as the t<;a- 
spoon of hartshorn would be a double dose for ordinary 
cases of disease. 

8. Nature's Cholera !MEDicnsE. — Laudanum, spirits of cam- 
phor, and tincture of rhubarb, equal parts of each. Dose— 
One table-spoon every 15 to 30 minutes until relieved. 

In attacks of cholora, the patient usually feels a general 
uneasiness and heat about the stomach, increasing to actual 
distress and great anxiety, finally sickness, with vomiting 
and purging, surface constringed, the whole powers of the 
Bystem concentrated upon the internal organs, involving the 
nervous system, bringing on spasms, and in the end, death. 
Now, whatever will allay this uneasiness, drive to the sur- 
face, correct the discharges, and soothe the nerves, cures 
the disease. The laudanum does the first and the last, the 
camphor drives to the surface, and the rhubarb conecta 
the alimentary canal ; and if accompanied with the hot 
bath, frictions, &c., is doubly sure. And to show what may 
be done with impunity in extreme cases, let me say that 
Merritt Blakeley, living near Flat Rock, Mich., came home 
from Detroit, during the last cholera season, having the 
cholera in its last stage, that is, with the vomiting, purging 
and spasms ; the foregoing medicine being in the house, 
the wife, in her hurry and excitement, in place of two-thirds 
of a table-spoon, she read two-thirds of a tea-cup; and 
gave it accordingly, and saved his life ; whilst if taken in 
the spoon doses, at this stage of the disease, he would most 
undoubtedly never have rallied from the collapse into which 
he was fast sinking ; yet in the commencement they would 
have been as eflfectual; so, mistake^ would be generally ac- 
credited for saving the patient, I say Providenct 'lid the 
work. 

Five to 10 drops would be a dose for a child of 2 to 5 years, 
and in this dose it saved a child of 2^ years in a bad case of 
bloody flux. 

If any one is permitted to die with all these prescription 
before them, it must be because a proper attention is not 
given ; for God most undoubtedly works through the use of 
means, and is best pleased to see his children wear outj 
rather than break by collision of machinery on the way. 

CHOLIC AND CHOLERA MORBUS.—Tbeatment. 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 181 

—Cholera morbus arises from a diseased condition of the 
bile, often brought on by over-indulgence with vegetables, 
espfcoially unripe fruits ; usually commencing with sickness 
and pain at the stomach, followed by the most excruciating 
pam and griping of the bowels, succeeded by vomiting and 
purging, which soon piostrate the patient. The person 
finds himself unavoidably drawn into a coil by the contrao* 
tion of the muscles of the abdomen and extremities. Thirst 
very great, evacuations first tinged with bile, and finally, 
nearly ail, very bilious. 

Treatment. — The difficulty arises from the acidity of th<» 
bile: then take saleratus, peppermint leaf, and rhubarb root 
pulverized, of each a rounding tea-spoon, put into a cup, 
wlvK h you can cover, and pour upon them, boiling water -J- pt.; 
wbxn nearly cold add a table-spoon of alcohol, or twice as 
muci brandy or other spirits. Dose — Two to 3 table-spoons 
eve/7 20 to 30 minutes, as often and as long as the vomiting and 
pO/i' hil purgations continue. If there should be long continued 
fjiif.i about the naval, use the "Injection" as mentioned under 
VjaI head, in connection with the above treatment, and you will 
bf;(A* nothing to fear. If the first dose or two should be vomited 
rc^jcat it immediately, until retained. 

The above preparation ought to be made by every family, 
and kept on hand, by bottling ; for diseases of this character 
are as liable to come on in the night as at any other time ; 
then much time must be lost in making fires, or getting the 
articles together with which to make it. 

2. Common Cholic. — There is a kind of cholic which 
some persons are afflicted with, from their youth up, not 
attended with vomiting or purging. I was afflicted with it, 
fo:om my earliest recollection until I was over twenty years 
nf age, sometimes two or three times, yearly. 

In one of these fits, about that age, a neighbor woman 5t«ime 
in, and as soon as she found out what was the matter with me, 
ine went out and pulled up a bunch of blue vervain, knocked 
bhe dirt from the roots, then cut them ofi* and put a good hand- 
ful of them into a basin, and poured boiling water upon them, 
and steeped for a short time, poured out a saucer of the tea and 
gave me to drink, asking no questions, but simply saying, " If 
Tou will drink this tea every day for a month, you will never 
nave cholic again as long as you live." I drank it, and in 15 
minutes I was perfectly happy ; the transition from extreme pain 
to immediate and perfect relief, is too great to allow one to find 
words adequate to describe the difference. 



^62 Da. chabe's recipes. 

I continued its use as directed, and have not had a cholio 
pain since, nearly thirty years. I have told it to others, 
with the same result. It also forms a good tonic in agues, 
and after fevers, &c. 

CxVEMINATIVES.— For the more common pains of th^ 
stomach, arising from accumulating gas, in adults or child- 
ren, the following preparation will be found very valuable* 
and much better than the plan of resorting to any of the 
opium mixtures for a constant practice, as many unwisely, 
or wickedly, do. See the remarks after '^ Godfrey's Cordial/' 
anS through this subject. 

Compound spirits of lavender, spirits of camphor, and tinc- 
ture of ginger, of each 1 oz. ; sulphuric etlier and tinctare of 
cayenne, of each ^ oz. Mix and keep tightly corked. Dose — 
For an adult, one tea-spoon every 15 minutes, until relieved ; for 
a child of 2 years, 5 drops ; and more or less, according to age 
and the severity of the pain. 

2. Carminative for Children.— Angelica and white roots, 
of each 4 oz. ; valerian and sculcap roots,- with poppy heads, of* 
each 2 ozs. ; s-\veet-flag root f oz. ; anise, dill, and fennel seed, 
with catmint leaves and lio'\yers, motherwort and mace, of each 
1 oz. ; castor and cochineal, of each 4- oz ; camplior gum 2 scru- 
ples, benzoic acid (called flower of benzoin) J oz. ; alcohol and 
water, of each 1 qt., or rum, or brandy 2 qts. ; loaf or crus-lied 
6ngar 1 lb. • Pulverize all of the herbs and roots, moderately fine, 
and place in a suitable sized bottle, adding the spirits, or alcohol 
and water, and keep warm for a week, shaking once or twice 
every day; then filter or strain, and add the cam])hor^and beu- 
/;oin, shaking well ; now dissolve the sugar in another qfuirt 
of water, by heat, and add to the spirit tincture, and all is com- 
plete. Dose. — For a very "oung child, from 3 to 5 drops ; if 1 
year old, about 10 drops, "and from that up to 1 teaspoon if 2 to 
5 years old, &c. r'or adults, from 1 to 4 tea-spoons, according to 
the severity of the x)ain — to be taken in a cup of catmint or cat- 
nip tea for adults, and in a spoon of the same for children. It 
may be repeated every 2 to d hours, as needed. 

Uses. — It eases pain, creat-es a moderate appetite and 
perspiration, and produces refreshing sleep ; is also excel- 
lent for removing flatulency or wind cholic, and valuable m 
hysteria and other nervous affections, female debility, &c , in 
place of the opium anodynes. 

SEIDLITZ POWDERS— GENUiNE.—Rochelle salts 2 drs. , 
Di -carbonate of soda 2 scruples ; put these into a blue paper, and 
put tartaric acid 35 grs. into a white paper. To use, put each 



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Into different tumblers ; fill J with water and put a little loaf 
B4igar m with the acid, then pour together and drink. 

This makes a very pleasant cathartic, and ought to be 
used more generally than it is, in place of more severe 
medicines. Families can buy 3 ozs. of the Rochelle-saltSj 
and 1 oz. of the bi-carbonate of soda, and mix evenly to- 
gether, using about 2 tea-spoons for 1 glass, and have the 
tartaric acid by itself, and use a little over J a tea-spoon of 
it for the other glass, with a table-spoon of sugar, all well 
dissolved, then pour together and drink while eifervescing; 
and they will find this to do just as well as to have them 
weighed out and put up in papers, which, cost three times as 
much, and do no better. Try it, as a child will take it 
with pleasure, as a nice beverage, and ask for more. 

A lady once lost her life, thinking to have a little sport, 
bj drinking one glass of this preparation, following it 
directly with the other ; the large amount of gas, disen- 
gaged, ruptured the stomach immediately. 

DIPTHERIA — Dr. Phinney's Remedy, of Boston 
— Dr. Phmney, of Boston, furnishes the Journal of that 
city with a recipe for diptheria, which has recently been 
re- published by the Detroit Daily Advertiser , containing 
60 much sound sense, and so decidedly the best thing that 
I have ever seen recommended for it, that I cannot forbear 
giving it an insertion, and also recommend it as the de- 
pendence in that disease. 

He says '' the remedy on T^hich I chiefly depend is the 
Actea Racemosa, or black sndke-root, which is used both 
locally as a gargle and taken internally. 

As a gargle, 1 tea-spoon of the tincture is added to 2 table- 
spoons of water, and gargled every hour for tweniy-four hours, or 
till the progress of the disease is arrested ; after which the inter- 
vals may be extended to an hour and a half, or more, as the 
symptoms may justify. In connection with the use of the gar- 
gle, or separately, the adult patient should take internally tothe 
amount of two or three tea-spoons of the tincture in the course 
of twenty-four hours. 

" In addition to the foregoing, give 10 drops of the muriated 
Uncture of iron 3 times in the 24 hours, and a powder from 3 to 
5 giains of the chlorate of potash in the intervals. 

'* Under this treatment a very decided improvement takes 
place within the first twenty-four hours, the ash c®lor(^ 



184 DR. chase's recipes. 

nembrane disappears usually within two days, and tht 
patient overcomes the malignant tendency of the disease. 
*' The foregoing doses are for adults ; for children the]? 
should of course be diminished according to age, &c. It 
will be observed that great importance is attached to tha 
frequent use of the gargle — that is, every hour — in order 
to overcome the morbific tendency of disease by a con- 
stantly counteracting impression. In order to guard 
against a relapse, an occasional use of the remedies should 
be continued for several days after the removal of the 
membrane and subsidence of unpleasant symptoms. To 
complete the cure, a generous diet and other restoratives 
may be used as the intelligent practitioner shall direct.^' 

CATHARTICS.— Vegetable Physic— Jalap and pepper- 
mint leaf, of each 1 oz. ; senna 2 ozs. ; pulverize all very finely, 
and sift through gauze, bottle it and keep corked. Dose — Put a 
rounding tea-spoon of the powder and a heaping tea-spoon of 
sugar into a cup, and pour 3 or 4 spoons of boiling water upon 
th^m ; w^hen cool stir it up and drink all. The best time for 
taking it is in the morning, not taking breakfast, but drinking 
fi'eely of corn-meal gruel. If it does not operate in 3 hours, re- 
peat half the dose until a free operation is obtained. 

Dr. Beach first brought this preparation, nearly in its 
preseDc proportions, to the notice of the Eclectic practition- 
ers who have found it worthy of very great confidence, and 
L-pplicable in all cases where a general cathartic action is re- 
quired. It may be made into syrup or pills, if preferred. 

2. Indian Cathartic Pills.- -Aloes and gamboge, of each 1 
oz. ; mandrake and blood-root, with gum myrrh, of each J oz. ; 
gum camphor and cayenne, of each 1^ drs. ; ginger 4 ozs. ; all 
finely pulverized and thoroughly mixed, with thick mucilage 
(made by putting a little water upon equal quantities cf gum 
arable and gum tragacanth,) into pill mass ; then formed into 
common sized pills. Dose — Two to 4 pills, according to the 
obustness of the patient. 

Families should always have some of these cathartics, aft 
' well as other remedies, in the house, to be prepared for acci- 
dent, providence, or emergence, whichever you please to 
call it. They may be sugar-coated, as directed under that 
head, if desired. 

TOOTHACHE AND NEURALGIA REMEDIES.— Maq. 
NETic Tooth Cordla.l and Paen Killer.— Best alcohol 1 oz. 
laudanum i oz. ; chlorofcrm, liquid measure, i oz. ; gum cam 



MEDICAL DJSPAHTMENT. 1S5 

pbor i 02. ; oii of eloves i dr. ; sulphuric ether i oz. ; and oil of 
lavender 1 dr. If there is a nerve exposed this will quiet it. 
^Lpply Willi lint. Rub also on the gums and upon the fac6 
again'bt the tooth, freely. 

*' The raginj; toothache why endure, when there is found a perfect cure, 

\\ hich saves the tooth and stops the pain, and gives the sutferer ease again." 

In the case of an ulcerated tootli at Georgetown, Ohio, 
Mr. Jenkins, the proprietor of the " Jenkins' House,'' had 
been suflering for eight days, and I relieved him by bathing 
th« fac« with this preparation, using a sponge, for two or 
three minutes only, taking a tea-spoon or two into the mouth, 
for a minute or two, as it had broken upon the inside. The 
operation of the cordial was really 7nagical^ according t^ 
old notions of cure. 

I ofi'ered to sell a grocer a book, at Lawrenceburgh, Ind. 
He read until he saw the " Magnetic Tooth Cordial" men- 
mentioned, then he says, '^If you will cure my toothache, I 
will buy one.'' I applied the cordial, it being late Saturday 
Rvening, and on Monday morning he was the first man on 
hand for his book. 

The Sheriff of Wayne Co., Ind., at Centerville, had been 
luffering three days of neuralgia^ and I gave him such de- 
eded relief in one evening, with this cordial, that he gave 
oie a three-dollar piece, with the remark, ^^ Take whatever 
you please." 

In passing from Connoatville, Pa., upon a canal boat, tho 
cook, (who was wife of one of the steersmen,) was taken, 
after supper, with severe pain in the stomach. I'here be- 
ing no peppermint on board, and as strange as it may appear, 
no spirits of any kind whatever ; I was applied to as a phy- 
sician to contrive something for her relief; I ran my mind 
over the articles I had with me, and could not hit upon any 
other so likely co benefit as the ^* Tooth Cordial," arguing 
in my mind that if good for pain wbere it could be applied 
to the spot externally, I could apply it to the point of pain 
internally in this case, (the stomach,) as well. I gave her a 
tea-spoon of it in water, and waited five minutes without 
relief, but concluding to go " whole hog or none," I re- 
peated the dose, and inside of the next five minutes she was 
perfectly cured. Her husband, the other steersman also, 
and one of the drivers, bouglit each a book, and the next 
week, in Erie, one of her neighbors bought another, upon 



1^6 DB. OHASE's K£C1P£S 

her recommendation ; since wliicli myself and agents hav^ 
freely used it, and recommend it for simila-r conditions with 
equal success. 

The cases are too numerous to mention more. I mention 
these to give confidence to purchasers, that ail, who need it, 
will not fail to give it a trial. It is good for any local pain, 
wherever it can be applied. Pain will not long exist under 
ite use. 

2. HoHEOPATHic Tooth Cordial. — Alcohol i pt. ; tincture of 
arnica and chloroform, of each 1 oz. ; oil of cloves i oz. Mil 
and apply as the other. 

There are many persons who would prefer this last to 
the foregoing, from the presence of arnica ] and it is espe- 
cially valuable as a liniment for bruises involving effusion 
of blood under the skin. 

3. Neuralgia — Internal Remedy. — Sal-ammoniac f dr., 
dissolve in water 1 oz. Dose — One table-spoon every 3 minutes, 
for 20 minutes, at the end of which time, if not before, the i)ain 
will have disappeared. 

The foregoing is from a gentleman who had been long 
afflicted with the disease, who found no success with any 
other remedy. Instead of common water, the '' Camphor 
Water ^' or -^ Mint Water ^' might by some be preferred. 
The ammonia is a very diffusable g simulant, quick] j ex- 
tending to the whole system, especially tending to the sur- 
face. 

4. King of Oils, for Neuralgia and Rheitj^iatism. — Burn- 
ing fluid 1 pt. ; oils of cedar, hemlock, sassafras, and origanum, 
of each 2 ozs. ; carbonate of ammonia, pulverized, 1 oz. ; mix. 
DmECTiONs. — Apply freely to the nerve and gums, around tha 
tooth ; and to the face, in neuralgic pains, by wetting brown 
paper and laying on the parts, not too long, for fear of blister- 
ing, — to the nerves of teeth by lint. 

A blacksmith, of Sturgis, Mich., cured himself and 
others, with this, of neuralgia, after physicians could give 
nc relief. 

5. Several years ago, I was stopping for a number of 
weeks at a hotel near Detroit ; whilst there, toothache was 
once made the subject of conversation, at which time the 
landlady, a Mrs. Wood, said she had been driven by it, to 
ED extreme measure — no less than boiling wormwood herb 
in alcohol and taking a table-spoon of it into the mouth, 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 187 

boiling hot^ immediately closing the mouth, turning tha 
head in such a way as to bring the alcohol into contact 
with all of the teeth, then spitting it out and taking the 
second immediately, in the same way, having the boiling 
kept up by sitting the tin containing it upon a shovel of hot 
coals, bringing it near the mouth. She said she nevisr had 
toothache after it, nor did it injure the mouth in the least^ 
but, for the moment, she thought her head had cot 
lapsed, or the heavens and earth come together. And 
although the lady's appearance and deportment was such 
as to gain general esteem, I dared not try it or recommend 
^ to others. But during the last season I found a gentle- 
man who had tried the same thing, in the same way, ex- 
cent he took four spoons in his mouth at a time, and did 
flot observe to keep his mouth closed to prevent the con- 
tact of the air with the alcohol, the result of which wa*s a 
scalded mouth, yet a perfect cure of the pain and no re- 
currence of it for twelve years up to the time of conversa- 
tion. And I do not now give the plan expecting it to be- 
come a general favorite, but more to show the severity of 
the pain, forcing patients to such extreme remedies. It 
would not be applicable only in cases where the pain was 
confined entirely to the teeth. 

6. HoESE-RADiSH RoOT, bruiscd and bound upon the 
face, or other parts where pain is located, has been found 
very valuable for their relief. And I think it better than 
the leaf for drafts to the feet, or other parts. 

7. Teeth — Extracting with little or no Pain. — 
Dr. Dunlap, a dentist of Chillicothe, 0., while filling a 
tooth for me, called my attention to the following recipe, 
given by a dental publication, to prevent pain in extracting 
teeth. He had used it. It will be found valuable for all 
who must have teeth extracted, for the feeling is suffi- 
fiently unpleasant even when all is done that can be for 
Js relief. 

Tincture of aconite,- chloroform, and alcolol of each 1 oz. , 
morphine G grs. Mix. Manner of Application. — Moisten 
two pledgets of cotton with the liquid and apply to the gums on 
each side of the tooth to be extracted, holding them to theix 
place witii pliers or some other convenient instrument for 5 to 
15 minutes rubbing the gum freely inside and out. 



188 DR. chase's recipks. 

My wife has had six teeth taken at a sitting, b it the last 
two she wished to have out, she could not mak-s up her 
mind to th« work until I promised her it should not hurt 
in the extraction, which I accomplished by acco'upanying 
her to Dr. Porter's dental office, of this city, and adminis 
tering chloroform in the usual way, just to the point ol 
nervous stimulation, or until its effects were felt over the 
whole system, at which time the teeth were taken, not 
causing pain, she says, equal to toothache for one minute 
Not the slightest inconvenience was experienced from the 
effects of the chloroform. I consider this plan, and so 
does Dr. Porter, far preferable to administering it untii 
entire stupefaction, by which many valuable lives have 
been lost. 

8. Dentrifice which Removes Tartareous Adhesions, 
Arrests Decay, and Induces a Healthy Action op the 
GtTMS. — Dissolve 1 oz. of borax in li pints of boiling w^ater, and 
when a little cool, add 1 tea-spoon of the tincture ot myrrh and 
I table-spoon of the spirits of camphor, and bottle for use. Di- 
rections. — At bedtime, wash out the mouth with water ; using 
a badger's hair brush (bristle brushes tear the gums and should 
never be used) ; then take a table-spoon of the dentrince wath aa 
much warm water, and rub the teeth and gums well, each night 
until the end is attained. 

9. Tooth- Wash — To Remove Blackness.— Pure muriatic 
acid 1 oz. ; water 1 oz. ; honey 3 ozs. ; mix. Take a tooth brush 
and wet it freely with this preparation, and briskly rub the black 
teeth, and in a moment's time they will be perfectly w^hite ; then 
Immediately w^ash out the mouth with water, that the acid may 
not act upon the enaTuel of the teeth. 

It need not be used often, say once in three or foui 
months, as the teeth become black again, washing out 
quickly every time. Without the washing after its use it 
would injure the teeth, with it, it never will. This blackness 
is hard to remove, even with the brush and tooth powder. 

10. Dr. Thompson, of Evansville, Ind., gives the above 
n twenty drop doses, three times daily, for laryngitis or bron- 
chitis, taken in a little water, throwing it back past the 
teeth. 

11. Tooth Powder— Excellent. — Take any quantity of 
finely pulverized chalk, and twice as much finely pulverized 
charcoal; make very fine; then add a very little suds mad< 
\iith Castile soap, and sufficient spirits of camphor to wet all w 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 189 

% thicK paste. Apply with the finger, rubbing thoroughly, and 
it will whiten the teeth better than any tooth powder you can 
buy. 

I noticed tiie past season, a piece going the rounds of the 

fapers, " That charcoal ought not to be used on the teeth/' 
will only add that a daughter of mine has used this pow- 
der over six years, and her teeth are very white, and no 
damage to the enamel, as yet. Six i/ears would show up 
the evil, if death was m the pot. Coal from basswood or 
other soft wood is the easiest pulverized. 

ESSENCES. — Druggists' rules for making essences is to 
use one ounce of oil to one quart of alcohol, but many of 
them do not use more than half of that amount, whilst most 
af the peddlars do not have them made of over on«-fourth 
that strength. I would hardly set them away if presented. 
I have always made them as follows : 

Peppermint oil 1 oz. ; best alcohol 1 pt. And the same amount 
of any other oil for any other essences which you desire to make. 
Dose— A dose of this strength of essence will be only from 10 
to SO drops. 

With most essences a man can drink a whole bottle with- 
out danger, or benefit. Peppermint is colored with tincture 
of tumeric, cinnamon with tincture of red sandal or sanders 
wood, and wintergreen with tincture of kino. There is no 
color, however, for essences, so natural as to put the green 
leaf of which the oil is made into the jar of essence, and 
let it remain over night, or about twelve hours ; then pour 
olF, or filter if for sale. But if families are making for 
their, own us^ they need not bother to color them at all. 
But many believe if they are high colored they are neces- 
sarily strong, but it has no effect upon the strength what- 
ever, unless colored with the leaf or bark, as here recom- 
mended. Cinnamon bark does in place of the leaf. See 
« Extracts." 

TINCTURES. — In making any of the tinctures in com 
mon use. or in making any of the medicines called for ia 
this work, or in works generally, it is not only expected, but 
absolutely necessary, that the roots, leaves, barks, &c., 
should be dry, unless otherwise directed ; then : 

Take the root, herb, bark, leaf or gum called for, 3 ozs. ; and 
Wuise it, then pour boiling water i pt., upon it, and when cold 



190 DR. ghase's recipes. 

add best alcohol i pt.^ keeping warm for ftx)m 4 to 6 days, oi 
letting it stand 10 or 12 days without warmth, shaking once ox 
twice daily ; then filter or strain ; or it may stand upon the drega 
and be carefully poured off as needed. 

With any person of common judgment, the foregoing 
directions are just as good as to take up forty times as much 
space by saying — take lobelia, herb and seed, 2 ozs. ; alcohol 
i pt. ; boiling water J pt., — then do the same thing, oveY 
and over again, with every tincture which may be called for; 
or £t least those who cannot go ahead with the foregoing in- 
structions, are not fit to handle medicines, a^ all ; so I leave 
the subject with those for whom the given information is 
sufficient. 

In making compound tinctures, you can combine the 
simple tinctures, or make them by putting the difierent arti^ 
cles into a bottle together, then use the alcohol and water it 
would require if you was making each tincture separately. 

TETTER, RINGWORM, AND BARBER'S ITCH— To 

Cure. — Take the best Cuba cigars, smoke one a sufficient length 
of time to accumulate J or i inch of ashes upon the end of the 
cigar ; now wet the whole surface of the sore with the saliva 
from the mouth, then rub the ashes from the end of the cigar 
thoroughly into, and all over the sore ; do this three times a day, 
afnd inside of a week all will be smooth and well. 

I speak from extensive experience ; half of one cigar 
cured myself when a barber would not undertake to shave 
me It is equally successful in tetters on other parts of the 
body, hands, &c 

Tobacco is very valuable in its place (medicine)— like 
spirits, however, it makes slaves of its devotees. 

2. Narrow leaved (yellow) dock root, sliced and 
soaked in good vinegar, used as a wash, is bigbly recom- 
mended as a cure for tetter, or ring-worm. 

BALSAMS.— Dr. R. W. Hutchins' Indian Healing, form- 
ERiiY, PECiiHAM's CouGH Balsam. — Clear, pale rosin 3 lbs., and 
melt it, adding spirits of turpentine 1 qt. ; balsam of tolu 1 oz i; 
balsam of fir 4 ozg. ; oil of hemlock, origanum, with Venice tur- 
pentine, of each 1 oz. ; strained honey 4 ozs. ; mix well, and 
bottle. Dose — Six to 12 drops ; for a child of six, 3 to 5 drops, 
on a little sugar. The dose can be varied according to the 
ability of the stomach to bear it, and the necessity of the case. 

It is a valuable preparation for coughs, internal pains , or 
strains, and works benignly upon the kidneys. 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT, 191 

%, Doctor Mitchel's Balsam, for Cuts, Bruises, &o,^ 
F*?nugreek seed, and gum myrrh, of each 1 oz. ; sassafras root- 
b^rk, a good handful ; alcohol 1 qt. Put all into a bottle, and 
keep warm for 5 days. 

Dr. Mitchel, of Pa., during his life, made great use of 
^] IS balsam, for cuts, bruises, abrasions, &c., and it will be 
found valuable for such purposes. 

ARTIFICIAL SKIN— For Burns, Bruises, Abrasions, &c. 
P^oop Against Water. — Take gun cotton and Venice turpen- 
tine, equal parts of each, and dissolve them in 20 times as much 
eulpliuric ether, dissolving the cotton first, then adding the tur- 
pentine ; keep it corked tightly. 

The object of the turpentine is to prevent pressure or 
pinching caused by evaporation of the ether when applied 
to a bruised surface. Water does not affect it, hence its 
value for cracked nipples, chapped hands, surface bruises, 
etc., etc. 

DISCUTIENTS— To Scatter Swellings.— Tobacco and 
clcuta (water hemlock) leaves, of each 2 ozs. ; stramonium, 
(jhnpsom) and solanam nigrum (garden night shade, sometimes 
erroneously called deadly night shade,) the leaves, and yellow 
dock root, of each 4 ozs. ; bitter-sweet, bark of the root, 3 ozo, 
Extiact the strength by boiliiig with water, pressmg out, and 
re-boiling, straining and carefully boiliug down to the consist- 
ence of an ointment, then add lard 18 ozs., and simmer together. 

It will be used for stiff joints, sprains, bruises attended 
with swelling when the skin is unbroken, for cancerous 
lumps, scrofulous swellings, white swellings, rheumatic 
swellings, &c. It is one of the best discutients, or scatterers 
in use, keeping cancers back, often for months. 

SMALL POX— To Prevent Pitting the Face.— A 
great discovery is reported to have recently been made by a 
Surgeon of the English army in China, to prevent pitting 
ur marking the face. The mode of treatment is as follows : 

When, in small pox, the preceding fever is at its height, and 
lust before the eruption appears, the chest is thoroughly rubbed 
with Croton Oil and Tartaremetic Ointment. This causes the 
whole of the eruption to appear on that part of the body to the ' 
relief of the rest. It also secures a full and complete eruption, 
and thus prevents the disease from attacking the internal organs. 
This is said to be now the established mode of treatment in the 
English army in China, by general orders, and is regarded as 
perfectly effectual. 



192 DR. chase's recipes. 

It is a well known fact, that disease is most likely to 
make its attack upon the weakest parts, and especially upon 
places in the system which have been recently weakened by 
previous disease; hence, if an eruption (disease) is caui<ed 
by the application of croton oil mixed with a little of tha 
Tartaremetic Ointment, there is every reason to believe that 
the eruption, in Small Pox, will locate upon that part in- 
stead of the face. The application should be made upon 
the breast, fore part of the thighs, &c., not to interfere with 
the posture upon the bed. 

It has been suggested that a similar application will re- 
lieve whooping-cough, by drawing the irritation from the 
lungs ; if so, why will it not help to keep measles to the 
surface, especially when they have a tendency to the inter- 
nal organs, called, striking in. It is worth a trial, in any 
of these cases. See ^' Causes of Inflammation ,'' under tho 
head of " Inflammation.^' 

2. Common Swellings, to Reduce.— Tory- weed pounde'^ Bd 
as to mash it thoroughly and bound upon any common swelling, 
will very soon reduce the parts to their natural size. 

This weed may be known from its annoyance to sheep 
raisers, as ii furnishes a small burr having a dent on one 
side of it. There are two species of it, but the burr of the 
other kind has no dent — is round. It will be found very 
valuable in rheumatisms attended with swellings. 

WENS— To Cure. — Dissolve copperas in water to makr it 
very strong; now take a pin, needle, or sharp knife and prick, 
or cut the wen in about a dozen places, just sufficient to causo it 
ti) bleed ; then wet it thoroughly with tlie copperas water, once 
daily. 

This, followed for four weeks, cured a man residing 
within four miles of this city, who had six or eight of them, 
gome of them on the head as large as a hen^s es^^,. The 
j^reparation is also valuable, as a wash, in erysipelas. 

BLEEDINGS — Internal and External — Styptto 
Balsam — For internal hemorrhage, or bleeding from the 
lungs, stomach, nose, and in excessive menstruation or 
bleeding from the womb, is made as follows : 

Put sulphuric acid 2| drs. by weight, in a Wedgewood mortar 
and slowly add oz^ of tm*pentine 1 fluid dr., stirring it constantly 
with the pestle , then add slowly again, alcohol 1 fluid dr., and 



UEDIQAL DEPARTMENT 193 

eoutinue to stir as long as any fames arise from the miilure, 
thwa bottle in glass, ground stoppered, bottles. It should be a 
dear red color, like dark blood, but if made of poor materials 
It ^Tvill be a pale, dirty red, and unfit for use. Dosb — To be 
given by putting 40 drops into a tea-cup and rubbing it thorough- 
iv witn a tea-spoon of brown sugar, and then stir ui water until 
tne cup i& nearly full, and drink immediately — repeat every hour 
for 8 or 4 kours, but its use should be discontinued as soon as no 
more fresh t»lood appears. Age does not injure it, but a skim 
forms on the top which is to be broken through, using the medi- 
cine b'elow iv. 

This preparation was used for thirty years, with uniform 
auccess, by hr. J as. Warren, before he gave it to the pub- 
ric ; since then, Dr. King, of Cincinnati, author of the Ec- 
electic Dispensatory, has spread it, through that work, and 
many lives have been saved by it. It acts by lessening the 
force of the circulation (sedative power,) as also by its as- 
tringent effects in contact with the bleeding vessels. And 
the probability is that no known remedy can be as safely 
depended upon for more speedy relief, or certainty of cure, 
especially for the lungs, stomach, or nose ; but for bleedings 
from the womb, or excessive menstruation, I feel to give 
preference to Prof. Platt^s treatment as shown in the recipe 
lor "• Uterine Hemorrhages.^^ No relaxation from business 
need be required, unless the loss of blood makes it neces- 
sary, nor other treatment, except if blood has been swal- 
lowed, or if the bleeding is from the stomach, it would be 
well to give a mild cathartic. Bleeding f^^om the stomach 
will be distinguished from bleeding from the lungs by a 
sense of weight, or pain, and unaccompanied by cough, and 
discharged by vomiting, and in larger quantities at a time 
than from the lungs. The blood will be darker also, and 
often mixed with particles of food. 

Exercise in the open air is preferable to inactivity ; and 
if any symptoms of returning hemorrhage show themselves, 
Degin with the remedy without loss of time, and a reason- 
fible hope of cure may be expected. 

2. External Styptic Remedies.-- Take a glazed earthern 
f essel that will stand heat and put into it water 2^ pts. ; tincturo 
of benzoin 2 ozs. ; alum J- lb., and boil for 6 hours, replacing the 
fyater which evaporates in boiling, by pouring in boiling water 
io as not to stop the boiling process, constantly stirring. At the 
bud of the 6 hours it is to be filtered or carefully strained and 
bottled, also in glass stoppered bottles. Application— Wet lint 

^— ooPY RionT secuhed. 



1&4 I)P.. CnASE's RECIPES. 

and lay upon the wound, binding with bandages to prevent th© 
thickened blood (coagula) from being removed from the mouths 
of the vessels, keeping them in place for 24 to 48 hours will be 
sufficient. 

If any doubt is felt about this remedy, pour a few dropf 
of it into a vessel containing human blood — the larger the 
quantity of the styptic^ the thicker will be the blood mass, 
until it becomes black and thick. Pagliari was the first to 
introduce this preparation to public notice.— ^cZec^z<; Bi^ 
penuatory. 

3. Styptic Tincture — External Application. — Best bran- 
dy 2 ozs. ; finely scraped Castile soap 2 drs. ; potash 1 dr. ; mix 
all, and shake well when applied. Apply warm by putting lint 
up^m the cut, wet with the mixtiu*e. 

I have never had occasion to try either of the prepara- 
tions, but if I do, it will be the " Balsam/^ or '^ Externa) 
Styptic'^ first, and if they should fail I would try the ^' Tinc- 
ture,'' for I feel that it must stop blood, but I also am cer- 
tain that it would make a sore, aside from the cut \ yet, 
better have a sore than lose life, of course. These remedies 
ire such, that a physician might pass a lifetime without oc- 
5asion to use, but none the less important to know. 

BHONCKOCELE— Enlarged Neck— To Cure.— Iodide of 
potassium (often called hydriodate of potash,) 2 drs. ; iodine 1 dr. ; 
water 2 \ ozs. ; mix ard shake a few minutes and pour a little 
into a vial for intemal use. Dose — Five to 10 drops befoi*e each 
meal, to be taken in a little water. External Application. — 
With a fcadier wet the enlarged neck, from the other bottle, 
night and morning, until well. 

It will cause the scarf skin to peel off several times bo- 
fore the cure is perfect, leaving it tender, but do not omit 
the application more than one day at most, and you may 
rest assured of a cure, if a cure can be performed by any 
means whatever ; many cures have been performed by it, 
and there is no medicine yet discovered which has proved 
one-hundreth part as successful. 

2. But if you are willing to be longer in performing the cur^, 
to avoid the soreness, dissolve the same articles in alcohol 1 pt., 
and use the same way, as above described, (e. e.) both internal 
and external. 

PAIN KILLEK— Said to be Perry Davis'.— Alcohol 1 qt. ; 
gum guaiac 1 oz. ; gums myrrh and camphor, and cayenne pul- 
irerized, of each \ oz. Mix. Shake occasionally for a week <^ 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 195 

10 days and filter or let settle for use. Apply freely to surface 
pains, or it may be taken in tea-spoon doses for internal pains, 
and repeat according to ne^ssities. 

If any one can tell it from its namesake, by its looks or 
actions, we will tlien acknowledge that the old minister, from 
whom it was obtained, was greatly deceived, although he 
was perfectly familiar for a long time with Mr. Davis, and 
his mode of preparing the pain-killer. 

POISONS — Antidote. — When it becomes known that a poV" 
iOTc has been swallowed, stir salt and ground mustard, of each 
ja, heaping tea-spoon, into a glass of water, and have it drank 
immediately. It is the quickest emetic known. 

It should vomit in one minute. Then give the whites of 
two or three eggs in a cup or two of the strongest coffee. 
£f no coffee, swallow the e^^ in sweet-cream, and if no 
cream sweet-milk, if neither, down with the Qg^. 

I have used the mustard, with success, in the case of 
my own child, which had swallowed a " Quarter ^^ beyond 
the reach of the finger, but remaining in the throat, which, 
to all appearances, would have soon suffocated him. I first 
took '^ granny^s plan'^ of turning the head down and pattiug 
on the back ; failing in this, I mixed a heaping tea-spoon 
of mustard in sufficient water to admit its being swallowed 
rcaddy ; and in a minute we had the quarter, dinner, and 
ail ; without it, we should have had no child. 

1 knew the mustard to work well once upon about twenty 
mefii in a boat-yard, on Beile River, Newport, Mich. 1 
had been furnishing them with " Switched' at twenty 
cents per bucket, made by putting about a pound of sugar, 
a quart of vinegar, and two or three table-spoons of ginger 
to the bucket of water, with a lump of ice. An old man, 
also in the grocery business, offered to give it to them at 
eighteen pence per bucket, but, by some mistake, he put in 
mustard iostead of ginger. They had a general vomit, 
which made them think that Cholera had come with the 
horrors of " Thirty-Two,^' but as the downward effects were 
not experienced, it passed off with great amusement, safely 
establishing my custom at the twenty cents per bucket. 

INFLAMMATORY DISEASES— Descrtption.— Be- 
fore I attempt to speak of the inflammation of particular 
organs, I shall make a few remarks upon the subject in gen 



\9$ DR. chase's REOirES. 

eralj'which will throw* out the necessary light for those not 
already informed ; and I should be glad to extend my treat- 
ment to all of the particular organs of the body, but the 
limits of the work only allows me to speak of Pleurisy, In- 
flammation of the Lungs, &c. ; yet, Eclectic ideas of inflam- 
mation are such, that if we can, successfully, treat inflam- 
mation in one part of the system, (body,) we can, with but 
little modification, succeed with it in all of its forms : And 
jny general remarks shall be of such a nature as to enable 
any judicious person to, successfully, combat with inflamma- 
tions in every part of the system. Then : 

First. — Inflammation is, generally, attended with pain^ 
increased heat, recbiess, ar d swelling. Some, or all of these 
eigns alwai/s accompany ii g it, according to the structure of 
the organ afi'ected. 

Second. — The more loose the structure of the organ, 
the less severe will be the pain ; and the character of the 
structure also modifies the character of the pain. In mucouf 
membranes, it is burning or stinging. In serous membrane? 
it is lancinating, and most usually very sharp and cutting 
In fibrous structures, it is dull, aching, and gnawing. Is 
nervous structures, it is quick, jumping, and most usually 
excruciatingly severe ; and in nearly all structures more or 
less soreness is soon present. 

TmiiD. — To make the foregoing information of value, 
it becomes necessary to know the structure of the various 
parts of the system. Although the ultimate portions of 
muscle or flesh, as usually called, is fibrous, yet, there is a 
loose cellular structure blended with it, which fills up and 
rounds the form to its graceful beauty — hence, here, we 
have more swelling, and less severity of pain. With the 
rose, or red of the lips, commences the mucous membranOw 
which forms the lining coat of the mouth, stomach, &c., 
through the whole alimentary canal, also lining the urethra, 
bladder, ureters, vagina, womb, fallopian tubes, &o., hence 
the heat always felt in inflammation of these organs The 
whole internal surface of the cavity of the body is lined Dy 
a serous membrane, which is also reflected or folded upon 
the lungs — here called pleura, (the side.) hence pleurisy, 
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MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 197 

txxe upper side of the diaphragm ; the diaphragm forming 
& partition between the upper and lower portions of the cav- 
ity of the body, the uppx^r portion containing the lungs, 
heart, large blood vessels, &c., called the chest , more com- 
monly the breast — the lower portion containing the stomach, 
liver, kidneys, intestines, bladder, &c., called the abdomti*- 
— more commonly the bowels. The sides of the abdomen 
are covered with a continuation of this serous membrane, 
which is also reflected upon the lower side of the diaphragm, 
liver, stomach, small and large intestines, bladder, &c., — 
here called peritoneum^ (to extend around) in all places it 
secretes (furnishes) a moistening fluid enabling one organ 
of the body to move upon itself or other organs without 
friction. This serous membrane is thin, but very firm, 
hence the sharpness of the pain when it is inflamed, as it 
cannot yield to the pressure of the accumulating blood. 

Fourth.- -The ligaments or bands which bind the dif- 
ferent parts of the body together at the joints, and the 
gracefully contracted ends of the muscles (called tendons) 
which pass the joint, attaching themselves to the next bone 
above, or below, and the wristlet-like bands which are 
clasped around the joints through which these tendons play, 
as over a pully, when the joint is bent, are all of a fibrous 
construction, hence the grinding or gnawing pains of rheu- 
matism (inflammations), and injuries of, or near joints; and 
it also accounts for that kind of pain in the latter stages of 
intestmal inflammations, as the stomach, intestines, &c., are 
composed of three coats, the external, serous, — middle 
fibrous, interm^l, mucous; and when inflammation of the 
external, or internal ; coats are loug continued, it generally 
involves the middle — fibrous layer. 

Fifth. — Th«i greatest portion of the substance of the 
lungs is of fibrous tissue, consequently, dull or obtuse pain 
only, is experienced when inflamed. 

Lastly. — The nervous system, although of a fibrou$ 
character is so indescribably fine in its structure^ that, like 
the telegraph wire, as soon as touched, it answers with a 
bound, 10 the t^all — quick as thought, whether pain or pleas- 
ure, jumpingj bounding, it goes to the grand citadel (the 
brain) which overlooks the welfare of the whole temple. 



t98 Dtt, CnASE'S RECIPES. 

In general, the intensity of the pain attending inflamma- 
tions will surely indicate the violence of the febrile (sympa- 
thetic) reaction ; for instance, in inflammation of the bron- 
chial tubes, the pain is not very severe, consequently not 
much fever, (reaction) ; but in inflammation of the pleura 
(pleurisy) the pain is very severe, conse quently the febrile 
reaction exceedingly great. 

Causes of Inflammation. — In health, th« hlood 
carried evenly, in proportion to the size of the blood vessels, 
to every part of the body. And the vessels (arteries and 
veins) are proportioned in size to the necessity of the sys- 
tem for vitality, nutrition, and reparation. Whatever it may 
be that causes the blood to recede from the surface, or any 
considerable portion of it, will cause inflammation of the 
weakest portion of the system ) and whatever will draw the 
blood unduly to any part of the system, will cause inflamma- 
tion of that part, — for instance, cold drives the blood from 
i^iiQ surface, consequently, if sufficiently long continued, the 
internal organ least able to bear the accumulation of blood 
upon it will be excited to inflammation — a blow upon any 
part, if sufficiently severe, will cause inflammation of the 
injured part. Also mustard poultices, drafts to the feet, &C.5 
hence the propriety of their proper use to draw the blood 
away from internal organs which are inflamed. A check of 
perspiration is, especially, liable to excite inflammation* and 
that in proportion to the degree of heat producing the per- 
Bpiration and the length of time which the person may be 
exposed to the cold. The object of knowing the cause of 
disease is to avoid suifering from disease, by keeping clear 
of its cause ; or thereby to know what remedy to apply for 
its cure or relief. 

There is a class of persons who claim that causes vfiW have 
uheir legitimate effects^ ii^lfiysical or moral ; physicians ^woic 
that it is absurd physically ; that is, when philosophically 
and scientifically combated with, — for instance, a person is 
exposed to cold ) the blood is driven in upon the internal 
organs, and the one which is the least able to bear the pres- 
sure gives way before the invading enemy, and an inflamma- 
tion is the result; which, if left to itself, will terminate in 
•leath ; but heat and moisture are applied to the constringed 
irfaee —the blood is brought bact and 'held there, and « 



MEBIOAL DEPARTMENT 199 

cure is speedily effected — the natural or physical tffect of 
the cause is obviated or avoided. 

Then why should it be thought impossible with \}od that 
a moral remedy should be provided against moral evils ? 
Thanks be to Grod, it has been provided to the willi7ig and 
obedient J through our Lord Jesus Christ, but only to the 
willing and obedient, morally as well as physically, for if a 
person will not permit a proper course to be pursued to over- 
come tne consequences arising to his body from cold, he 
must suffer, not only the inflammation to go on, but also 
guilt ol mind for neglecting his known duty. The same is 
true in either point of view, only it looks so curious that 
there sliould be those who can reason of physical things^ 
but utterly refuse to give up their moral blindness ; the con- 
loquences be upon their own heads. 

Just in proportion to the susceptibility of an organ to tak» 
oa diseased action, is the danger of exposure ; for example 
if a person has had a previous attack of pleurisy, or inflam- 
mation of the lungs, those organs, or the one which has been 
vliseased, will be almost certain to be again prostrated, usu- 
ally called relapse ; which is in most cases, ten times more 
severe than the first attack ; then be very careful about ex- 
posures when just getting better from these, or other disease. 

Inflammation terminates by resolution, effusion, suppura- 
tion, or mortification. By resolution, is meant that the parts 
return to their natural QOudliiovL) by effusion, that blood 
may be thrown out from the soft parts, or from mucous 
membranes, — that lymph^ or serum, a colorless part of the 
blood may be thrown out by serous membranes, which often 
form adhesions, preventing the after motions of the affected 
parts — and here what wisdom is brought to light, in the 
fact that whatever is thrown out from the mucus surface 
never, or at least very seldom adhere, or grow up ; if it did, 
any part of the alimentary caoal from the mouth to the stom- 
ach, and so on through the intestines, would be constantly 
adhering ; so,also of the lungs ; for these various organs are 
more frequently affected by inflammations than any other 
parts of the body— by suppuration, when abscesses are formed 
containing pus (matter,) or this may take place upon the 
surface, when it is usually called canker, or corroding ulcers, 
cancers, &c. ; by gangrene, (mortification,) when death of 



200 I>R chase's RECIPEg 

tlie parte take place ; in this case, if th« part ib sufficientlj 
extensive, or if it is an internal part, death of the whole 
body, if not relieved, is the result. 

The methods of inflammatory termination is believed to 
result from the grade of inflammation — for instance, at the 
circumference of a boil, the inflammation is weak, serum is 
thrown out ; near the centre, where the inflammation is a 
little higner, lymj)h is poured out and adhesion takes place ; 
— next pus — at the centre, mortijiction and consequent 
sloughing takes place. 

In hoils^ the tendency is to suppuration ; in carhwides^ the 
tendency is to mortification; but in rheumatism, mumps, 
&c., there is a strong tendency to resolution ; and it is often 
very difficult to avoid these natural terminations. 

The five diff'erent tissues of the body also modify the in- 
flammation according to the tissue inflamed, viz : the cellular 
(fleshy) tissue, is characterized by great swelling, throbbiDg 
pain, and by its suppurating in cavities — not spreading all 
over that tissue. Inflammation of the serous tissue, has 
sharp lancinating pain, scarcely any swelling, but much 
reaction (fever), throws out lymph, and is very liable to 
form adhesion — not likely to terminate in mortification, ex- 
cept in peritonitis (inflammation of the lining membrane of 
the abdominal cavity), which sometimes terminates thus in 
a few hours, showing the necessity of immediate action. 
Inflammation of the mucous tissue, is characterized by 
burning heat . or stinging pain (hence the heat of the stom- 
ach, bowels, &c.) — without swelling, not much febrile re- 
action, and never terminates in resolution (health) without 
a copious discharge of mucus, as from the nose and lungs, 
m colds, catarrhs, coughs, &c. Inflammation of the dermoid 
(skin) tissue, as in erysipelas, is characterized by burning 
pain — spreads irregularly over the suaface, forming blistei-s 
containing a yellowish serum, but never forms adhesions, 
nor suppurates in cavities, but upon the surface. Inflamma- 
tion of the fibrous tissue, or rheumatic inflammation, is 
characterized by severe aching or gnawing pain — is not 
liable to terminate in suppuration nor mortification — pearly 
always throwing out a gelatinous serum, often causing stiif- 
joints, or depositing earthy matter, as in gout — is peculiarly 
liable to change ite place, being very dangerous if it change 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 201 

i Any of the vital organs, as the brain, heart, stomach, &c., 
a, a in the acute form the febrile reaction is usually quite 
severe. Internal inflammation will be known by the eon- 
sttmt pain of the inflamed part, by the presence of fever, 
which does not generally attend a spasmodic or nervous 
pain, and by the position chosen by the patient, to avoid 
pressuie upon the afflicted organs. 

inflammation is known under two heads, acute and chronic 
The first is generally rapid and violent in its course and 
ehatdcteristics. The last is usually the result of the first, 
— is more slow and less dangerous in its consequences. 

Treatment. — Sound philosophy (Eclecticism) teaches, 
that if cold has driven the blood (consequently the heat) 
fiom tL«; surface, heat will draw it back; and thus relieve 
the internal engorgements (over-full organs) and if held 
there, suficiently long, entirely cure the difficulty (inflam- 
mation) , upon the same ground, if a person is cold, warm 
him ) if wet and cold, warm and dry him ; if hot, cool him ; 
if dry and hot, wet and cool him — equalize the circulation 
and pain or disease cannot exist. 

The foregoing remarks must suffice for general directions ; 
but the following special application to fleuruy and injiam' 
mation of the lungs shall be sufflciendy explicit to enable 
all to make their general applications. 

2. Pleurisy. — Pleurisy is an inflammation of the serous 
membrane inveloping (covering) the lungs, which is also re- 
flected (folded) upon the parieties (sides or walls) of the 
chest, (but I trust all will make themselves familiar with 
the description of '^ Inflammation in General,'' before they 
proceed with the study of pleurisy,) attended with sharp 
lancinating pain in the side, difficult bieathing, fever, with 
a quick, full, and hard pulse, usually commencing with a 
chill. Jn many cases the inflammation, consequently the 
pain, is confined to one point, most commonly about 
the short ribs ; but often gradually extends towards the 
shoulder and forward part of the breast ; the pain increas- 
ing, aud often becoming very violent. It may not, but 
upually, is attended with cough, and the expectoration is 
seldom mixed with blood, or very fr^e, but rather of a glairy 
or mucous character. As the disease advances, the pain ia 
compared to a stab with a sharp instrument, full breathing 



202 DR. chase's recipes 

not being indulged, from its increasing the difl3culty ; the 
cough also aggravates the pain ; great prostration of strength, 
the countenance expressing anxiety and suffering. The 
breathing is short, hurried, and catching, to avoid increase 
of pain 'f in some cases, the cough is only slight. It may 
be complicated with inflammation of the lungs, or bronchial 
tubes, and if so complicated, the expectoration will b^ 
mixed or streaked with blood. Yet it makes but very little 
difference, as the treatment is nearly the same — with th«F 
exception of expectorants, quite the sam«; although ex- 
pectorants are not (miiss in pleurisy, but absolutely neces 
sari/ in inflammation of the lungs. Even Mackintosh, of 
the '' Regulars,'' says : " It must be recollected that pneu- 
monia " (inflammation of the lungs) ^' and pleuritis " (pleu- 
risy) " Frequently co-exist " (exist together); " But neither 
is that circumstance of much consequence, being both 
inflammatory diseases, and requiring the same genera/ 
remedies." But there I stop with hijn, for I cannot go ih& 
bleeding, calomel, and antimony. I have quoted his words 
to satisfy the people that the " Beguiars " acknowledge the 
necessity of a similar treatment in all inflammatory diseases, 
the difference between the two branches of the profession, 
existing only in the remedies used. 

Causes of Pleurisy. — Cold, long applied, constrinc^eg 
(makes smaller) the capillaries (hair-like blood-ves.s«ls) 
which cover as a net-work the whole surface, impairing- the 
circulation, driving the blood internally, causing congestion 
(an unnatural accumulation of blood) upon the pleura, iience 
pleurisy. Exposures to rains, especially cold raiac, cold, 
wet feet, recession (striking in) of measles, scarleri fever, 
rheumatism, &;c., often cause inflammation of t/iia char- 
acter. 

iNDiCATiaNS.- — Relax the whole surface, whioii removes 
the obstructions — restore, and maintain, an equal oijrculation, 
and the work is accomplished. The temperatcire of the 
surface and extremities is much diminished, ^iiowing tnat 
the blood has receded (gone) to the internal, diseasea, or- 
gans, the temperature of which is much incrcaeed ; for with 
the blood goes the vitality (heat) of the body. This condi- 
tion of the system clearly indicates the treatment, fiz : the 
application of heat tp the surface in such a way as to b« 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 203 

\i\e to keep it there until nature is again capable of carry- 
ing on her own work, in her own way. 

Treatment. — It has been found that the quickest and least 
troublesome way in which heat could be applied to the w^hole 
surface, is by means of burning alcohol, formerly called a "Rum 
sweat," because rum was stronger than at present, and more 
pknty than alcohol ; but now alcohol is the most plenty, and 
much the strongest and cheapest. It should always be in the 
house (the 98 per cent.) ready for use as described under the 
head of " Sweating with Burning Alcohol," (which see), or if it 
is day time, and fires are burning, you can give the vapor-bath- 
sw«&t, by placing a pan, half or two-thirds full of hot water, 
under the chair, having a comforter around you ; then putting 
into it occasionally a hot stone or brick, until a free perspiration 
is i)roduced and held for from 15 to 30 minutes, according to the 
severity of the case ; and if this is commenced as soon as the 
attack is fairly settled upon the patient, in not more than one 
case out of ten will it be necessary to do anything more ; but if 
fairly established, or if of a day or two's standing, then, at the 
feame time you are administering the sweaty place the patient's 
feet in water as hot as it can be borne ; have also a strong tea 
made of equal parts of pleurisy-root and catnip, (this root is also 
called white root — Doctors call it asclepias tuberosa)— into a 
saucer of this hot tea put 2 tea-spoons of the " Sweating Drops," 
kinking all at one time, repeating the dose every hour for 5 or 
4 hours, using only 1 tea-spoon of the drops at other times, ex- 
;ept the first, giving the tea freely once or twice between doses. 
ils soon as the sweating is over, place the patient comfortably 
m bed so as to keep up the perspiration from 6 to 12 hours, or 
dntil the pain and uneasiness yield to the treatment. If neces- 
sary, after the patient takes the bed, place bottles of hot water 
to I he feet and along the sides, or hot bricks, or stones wrapped 
with flannel wet with vinegar, to help keep up the perspiration. 
MuHtard may also be placed over the seat of pain, and upon the 
Teet also rubbing the arms and legs with dry flannel, which very 
Diuch aids the process when the attack is severe. If the pain 
''jonknues severe, and perspiration is Lard to maintain, steep cay- 
ennes or common red j)eppers in spirits and rub the whole sur- 
face' with it, well and long, and I will assure the blood to come 
out Boon and see what is going on externally. Keep the patient 
well covered all the time, and avoid drafts of cold air. As tho 
pair.ful symptoms begin to subside, the doses of medicine may 
be lessened, and the time between doses lengthened, until the 
disease is fairly under control ; then administer a dose of the 
'^Ve^^etable Physic," or some other cathartic, if preferred, or if 
that is not at hand, this course may be repeated or modified to 
meet returning or changing symptoms. 

Wetting the surface daily, with alcohol and water, equal parts, 
will be found an excellent assistant in treating any disease, es- 
pecially, internal inflmmations, as Plemisy, Inflammation of the 
Lunge, Couamnpton, Broncliits, &c., &c. 



204 DR. chase's recipes. 

The pleurisy root is almost a specific in pleurisy or in 
fiammation of the lungs; no other known root or herb is 
equal to it for producing and keeping up perspiration (ditsg- 
gists usually keep it,) but if it cannot be got, pennyroyal, 
sage, &c.. or one of the mints, must be used in its )piace. 
The only objection to the foregoing treatment is tL<i>, it^ 
Doctors say : 

Heigh ! I guesg he wasn't yerj sick ; 
Foresee ! he's round iu " doable quick" ; 
But alopath holds 'em for weeks, six or seven, 
When bleeding, calomel, and antimony are given. 

To illustrate : I awoke one night with severe paw in the 
left side (I had been exposed to cold during the atlernoon,) 
could not move or draw a full breath without very much 
increasing the difficulty; the night was cold and fires all 
down ; I studied my symptoms for a few minutcb^, and also 
reflected upon the length of time which must elapse, if I 
waited for fires to be built ; then awoke my wife, saying do 
5ot be frightened, I have an attack of Pleurisy ; you will 
get me a comforter, saucer, and the alcohol, and return to 
bed without disturbing any one ; with persuasion, or almost 
compulsion, she did so ; for she desired to build a fire and 
make a more thorough work of it ; but I had made up my 
mind and resolved to carry out the experiment upon myself, 
and now had the only chance. I arose and poured the 
sau(;er nearly full of alcohol, and set it on fire ; wrapping 
the comforter around me, 1 sat down upon the chair, over 
it, and continued to sit until the alcohol was all burned out, 
and I in a most profuse perspiration ; the pain and diffi- 
cult breathing having nearly all subsided ; I then returned 
to bed, the perspiration continuing for some consic^^^rable 
longer, by retaining the comforter around me to avoid 
checking it as I returned to bed, during which time I ^M^ain 
fell asleep. When I awoke in the morning I could just 
realize a little pain, or rather uneasiness, upon taking a 
full breath, but did nothing more, being very careful abo^^t 
exposure however, through the day ; but at bed time I took 
another alcohol sweat, and that was the last of the pleurisy. 

Again : Mr. , a medical student rooming in the 

same house where I lived, awoke in the night, attacked 
with pleurisy, the same as myself, after exposure ; but a» 
he was attending the lectures of abpathic professorsj **f 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 205 

course, he must have one of them to attend him ; one wa^ 
ealled, three pints of blood were taken, calomel and anti- 
mony were freely given ; and in about three or four days 
the disease gave way to time, or the treatment ] but a calo- 
mel-Diarrhea set in, and came very near terminating his 
hfe, and kept him from college and his studies o^er six 
weeks; and he said if he was ever calomelized again, he 
would pr(^secute the doer to the end of his 'life; but he 
graduated in that school of medicine, and no doubt is now 
expecting to go and do the same thing. Choose ye your serv^ 
'ant. Shall he be reason, with common-sense resuils, oi 
shall he be silver-slippered fashion, with Llo health-dtstroy- 
ing policy ? It need not oe argued that the^e woie not 
parallel cases, for I had the pleurisy when young, a,£id was 
treated in the fashionable style, and was constantly liable 
to, and had frequent attacks of it during my earlier life. 

In chronic cases, which sometimes occur, and frequently 
under other treatment, it will be necessary, not only to use 
the foregoing treatment, but to add to it an emetic about 
once a week, alternating with the sweating process, with 
much external friction, occasionally, with the pepper and 
spirits to hold the blood to the surface. 

Since the first publication of the foregoing, I have seen 
a statement going the rounds of the " Papers,'^ that a bad 
case of burning had taken place in N. Y., by the alcohol 
process of sweating, calling it new ; but it has been in use 
(nore than forty years ) I have used it, I speak safely, more 
than a kiindred times, and never before heard of its injuring 
any one ; but still it is possible that some accident may have 
occurred in its use, or that some one has undertaken it who 
was not capable of prescribing ; but if calom.el could claim 
fj7i€ gear's use under its most accomplished prescribcrs with 
only one case of injury^ I would say, let it be continued , 
but in place of one, it is hundreds ; farther comment is 
unnecessary. 

But, those who prefer, or from the absence of alcohol, or 
©ther necessities, can take "• grandmother^s plan," i, e., place 
fche feet into hot water, and drink freely of pennyroyal, sage, 
or other hot teas, for fifteen to twenty minutes ; then get 
into bed, continuing the teas for a short time, remaining in 
bed for a few houra; which, if commenced soon after the 



206 DR. chase's recipks. 

attack of colds, or even more severe diseases, will, in nine 
out of ten cases, not only relieve, but prevent days, perhaps 
weeks, of inconvenience and suffering. 

Where there are complications with the substance of the 
lungs, you will find explanations under the next head. 

3. Inflammation of the Lungs— Is usually, by phy- 
sicians, called Pneumonia, from the Greek, Fneumon, tha 
Lungs. It may involve the whole lung, on one or both sides, 
but is more generally confined to one side, and to the !owei 
portion, than to the whole lung. 

Causes. — Exposure to cold, wet, cold feet, drafts of air, 
especially if in a perspiratien, recession of eruptive diseases, 
&c., and consequently more liable to come on in the winter, 
or cold wet changes of spring, than at any other time; and 
upon those whose lungs are debilitated by previous attacks, 
or are predisposed to, or actuallysuffering under disease. 

Symptoms. — Inflammation of the Lungs, like other dis* 
eases of an inflammatory character, nearly always commen- 
ces with a chill, soon followed by fever, more or less violent, 
according to which, the severity of the case may be some- 
what predetermined, unless of a congestive character; in 
which case, instead of a hot and fevered surface, there wiD 
be a cold, clammy feel to the hand, as well as unpleasant to 
the patient. There will be difficulty in taking full breaths, 
as well as an increased number of breaths to the minute, 
which in healthy persons is generally about twenty. Dull 
pain, with a tightness of the chest, short and perpetual hack- 
ing cough, scanty expectoration, which is tough, and sticks 
to the vessel used as a spittoon, and is more or less streaked 
with blood, or more like iron-rust in color, and may have so 
much blood in it as to make it a brighter red. The pulse is 
variable, so much so that but little confidence can be placed 
in it. The tongue soon becomes dry and dark ; but a dry 
and glossy tongue, with early dehrium, are considered dan> 
p:erous symptoms, that is, under ^* Old School treatraeut.'* 
But with our rational treatment we very seldom have a fatjj 
termination, yet it is occasional, and really wonderful that it is 
not more frequent, when we take into account the negle-ct oi 
some physicians and imprudence of m»nj patients. 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 207 

Indications. — As the blood has receded from the sur- 
faiTje and centered upon the lungs ; the indications are to 
ret^xrn it to its original vessels, by judiciously applying 
heav. and moisture, which is sure to relax their constringed 
condition, instead of cutting a hole and letting it run out 
(bleeding), which prostrates the patient and retards his 
rect^very. 

I'REATMENT. — The treatment of Inflammation of the Lungs in 
recent cases, will be, at first, the same as for ** Pleurisy," that is, 
to pioduce free perspiration — soak the feet in hot water while 
admmistering the '' Alcohol Sweat," or Vapor Bath, as there di- 
rected, with the white-root tea and " Sweating Drops," for sev- 
eral hours, with bottles of hot water or hot bricks to the feet and 
sides, mustard-drafts to the feet also, as they can be borne ; and 
after 6 or 8 hours, the •* Vegetable," or other cathartic should be 
administered, and great care not to expose the patient to drafts 
of air during its operation, especially if in perspiration. If this 
course is faithfully persevered in, it will call the blood to the 
surface — prevent congestion of the lungs (unnatural accumula- 
tion of blood) — lessen the fever — ease the pain and aid expecto- 
ration. But if the expectoration becomes difficult, and the dis- 
ease should not seem to yield in from 8 to 12 hours at farthest, 
or by the time the cathartic has freely operated, then, or soon 
after, give the " Eclectic," or " Lobelia-seed Emetic," as directed 
under that head ; and if called to a case w^hich is already con- 
firmed, it is best to begin with the emetic, then follow up as above 
directed in recent cases. An expectorant, in confirmed (estab- 
lished) cases will be needed — let it be composed of tincture of 
lobelia 1 oz. ; tincture of ipecac i oz. ; tinctm-e of blood-root J 
oz. ; simple syrup or molasses 2 ozs. ; mix. Dose — One tea- 
spoon every 2 hours, alternately with the white-root tea and 
" Sweating Drops," except the first dose may be 2 tea-spoons. 
The case must then be watched carefully ; and any part or all 
of the treatment may be repeated, lessened, increased, or modi- 
fied, to suit returning or remaining symptoms. 

Persons having this book in the house, and being gov- 
erned by it, having also the leading medicines on hand ; 
and commencing with this disease, or inflammation of any 
other organs, modifying the treatment by common sense, 
according to the remarks on ^' General Inflammation/' will 
aot have to repeat the course in one case out of ten. 

In inflammations of the stomachy known by heat, accor- 
ding to the degree of the inflammation, drinks of slippery- 
elm water, or mucilage of gum arabic, &c., may be freely 
taken ) and in inflammation of other organs, other modifi- 
cations will be required ] as for Dy&entery, which is an iu- 



208 PR. chase's llECIPE*. 

fiammation of the large intestines, the "Injection" must be 
freely used, as also the perspiring processes, in all cases. 

In chronic inflammation, the emetic should be given once a 
week ; and some other time during the week, the sweating 
should be gone through also, with dry frictions to the whole 
surface, by means of a coarse towel, for fifteen to twenty min* 
utes each time, twice daily ; and if the feet are habitually cold, 
wash them in cold water and wipe them dry, at bed time, then 
rub them with a coarse cloth or the dry hand until the)'' are 
perfectly warm and comfortable ; and it may be expected that 
these long standing cases will soon yield to this rationed 
course. 

Female Debility and Irregularities. — It is a self evi- 
dent fact that the finer the work, and the more complicated a 
piece of machinery, the more liable is it to become deranged, 
or out of order ; and the more skillful must be the mechanic 
who undertakes to make any necessar^^ repairs. 

Upon this consideration I argue that the S3^stem of the 
fcnuile is the finer and more complicated, having to perform a 
double work, (child-bearing,) yet confined to the same or less 
dimensions than the male. And to perform this double func- 
tion of sustaining her own life, and giving life to her species, 
it becomes necessary in the wisdom of God to give her such 
a peculiar formation, that between the ages of fifteen and 
forty-five, or the chUd-bearing periods, she should have a san- 
g:uineous, monthly flow, called by various names, as, monthly 
periods, menstruation, menses, catamenia, courses, &c., &c. 

Why it should have been so arranged, or necessary, none 
can tell. We are left to deal with "the simple fact; and it 
would be just as wise in iis to say that it was not so, as to say 
there was no one who planned it, because we cannot see and 
fully understand the reason why it is so. This flow varies in 
amount from one to three, four, or five ounces, lasting from 
three to four or five days only, when usual health is enjoyed. 
And as this book will fall into the hands of very many fami- 
lies who will have no other medical work for reference upon 
this subject, it will not be amiss for me to give the necessary 
instructions here, that all may be able to qualify themselves 
to meet the exigencies (demand) of all cases. A day or two 
previous to the commencement of these periods, for the first 
time, an uneasiness often amounting to pain, in the parts, is 
felt, with sense of heaviness also in the womb — lying in the 
lower part of the abdomen. 

Some females are very nervous at these periods, others 
have a flushed face accompanied with d^'zziness and headache 
sickness at the stomach, &c. In young girls these new feel- 
ings produce uneasiness, for want of knowledge as to their 
caus« and result, and should lead them to seek maternal 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. ?09 

advice and counsel, unless they have some book of this kind 
which explains the whole matter. And it would certainly be 
advisable, in all cases, for girls to not only seek such advice 
from the mother, or lady with whom they may be living, but 
be guided by it also. And although, with many girls, there 
may be uneasiness in the mamm33, often amounting to real 
pain, yet, no real danger need be apprehended ; for these 
unpleasant sensations v/ill continue, and increase in severity. 
until in healthy young females there will be what is knows as 
a ^UhotCy^' which will alford immediate relief, not from the 
quantity of the flow, at the first few periods, lut from the 
fact that the organs peculiar to the female have accomplished 
their mysterious work. Ordinarily these periods begin at 
about fifteen years of age, some earlier or later even as much 
as a year and sometimes more. With girls who take an 
active part in the labors of the house, freely romping, play- 
ing, &c., their health and strength becoming fully developed 
thereby, these periods come on a little earlier, and are more 
healthy and regular. 

Allow me here to give a word of caution about taking cold 
at this period. It is very dangerous. I knew a young girl, 
who had not been instructed by her motlier upon this subject, 
to be so afraid of being found with this show upon her 
apparel which she did not know the meaning of, that she 
went to a brook and washed herself and clothes — took cold, 
and immediately became insane — remaining so as long as I 
knew her. Any mother who so neglects her duty to her 
child, in not explaining these things, nor by putting a work of 
this kind into her hands, runs the risk of injury to her daugh- 
ter that may never be remedied, even with the best treatment, 
after the harm is done. 

After this flow takes place, the unpleasant feelings usually 
subside, and the health agairw becomes good for the month, 
when all of the foregoing sensations recur again, with a 
larger flow and longer continued, recurring every four weeks, 
and is then called menses &c., &c. 

This function of the female system, from the fineness and 
complication of the structures, is very liable to become 
deranged in various ways. 

It may be partially suppressed or entirely stopped, called, 
amenorrhea^ — it may become painful or imperfect, dysmenor- 
rfcea, — it may be very free or excessive, menorrhagia, (like 
hemorrhage, for the treatment of which see recipe for Uterine 
Hemorrhage in another part of the book),— or, it may be 
irregular in its recurrence and duration, or a continual glairy 
flow which indicates an inflammation of the parts, leucorrhea. 

But as this monthly flow is absolutely necessary to health, 
between these periods of life, say fifteen to forty-five— iU jup- 



210 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES. 

pression,— -painfulness-^excessiveness, or irregularity, will 
soon produce general debility. 

Causes. — The female organism is such that what affects tho 
general system of the male, much more frequently affects the 
organs peculiar to her system only. No reason can be given 
for it except the wisdom of the Creator, and the necessities of 
her construction. But this debility and irregularity are so 
interwoven together that what causes one must necessarily 
affect the other. 

In the good old grandmotlier-days^ when girls helped with 
the work of the household, warm but loose clothing, plain 
food, good thick-soled shoes, and absence of novels, to excite 
the passions, &c., such a thing as a feeble, debilitated woman 
or girl was seldom knov/n ; but now, sedentary habits, stimu- 
lating food, every conceivable unphysiological style of dress, 
paper-soled shoes, checking perspiration, excitable reading, 
repeated colds b}^ exposure going to and from parties, thinly 
clad, standing by the gate talking: with supposed friends (real 
enemies) when they ought to be by the fire or in bed, all tend 
to general debility ; and the real w^onder is that there is not 
more debility than there is. 

Symptoms. — The very word debility, shows plainly the 
leading symptom, weakness. She appears pale, especially 
about the lips, nose, &c., with a bluish circle about the eyes, 
which appear rather sunken, she feels dull, languid, and 
drowsy, stomach out of order, nausea, often with fluttering 
about the heart ; the nervous system sometimes becoming so 
much involved as to bring on fits of despondency leading 
many to commit suicide. The feet and limbs frequently be- 
come swollen, restless in sleep, often craving unnatural food, 
as clay, soft stones, &c. There may also be a sensation of 
bearing down, or even falling of the womb, as it is called, 
(prolapsus uteri) which is much the most common among 
the married. The bowels are usually costive, often griping 
pains which cause much suffering. Pains in the head and 
back also ; but instead of being looked upon as unfavorable, 
they rather show that nature is trying to accomplish her 
work, and needs the assistance of rational remedies. 

It is not to be supposed that every patient will experience 
all of these symptoms, at one time, or all of the time ; but 
they commence as pointed out, and if allowed to go on with- 
out proper correction, they will increase in severity until they 
may be all experienced in a greater or less degree. 

Indications. — The symptoms indicate (point out) the treat- 
ment, that is, if there is debility, tonics are requii'cd ; paleness 
shows that the blood has become deficient in iron; and the 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 211 

softness of the flesh indicates that a more nutritious diet is 
needed. The dullness and drowsy languidness indicate the 
necessity of out-door, actiye exercise. Travel, or, agreeable 
home company, to ramble over hill and dale, resting as often 
and as long as may be necessary, not to tire, but sufficient to 
create an appetite and aid digestion— using, once a week, any 
gentle cathartic to move the bowels once or twice only at 
ea(jh time, with the ** To7iic Wim Tinctiive^'' given in another 
part of this w^ork, or the iron and ginger^ given below, as 
deemed best or most convenient to obtain. 

In cases of m/^/Ti^rtO'iiiV/i of these organs, known by a glairy 
flow, cooling and astringent injections are called for, both as an 
act of cleanliness, as also of cure. In cases w- here the womb has 
fallen — seUled low in tJie pelvis— the necessity is shown for a 
peesarj support, until the general treatment relieves the dif- 
ficulty, Costiveness, points out laxatives, whilst nature's ef- 
forts, shown by pains in the head, back, &c., call for the whole 
general remedies above pointed out ; and which shall be a lit- 
tle more particularized in the following: 

Treatment. — For the weakness and general debility of the 
patient, let the "Tonic Wine Tincture" be freely taken in 
connection with iron to strengthen and invigorate the system ; 
beth-root, (often called birth-root, Indian balm, ground Illy, 
&c.,) the root, is the part used, Solomon's seal and columbo 
spikenard, comfrey, gentian, the roots, with camomile flowers, 
of each 1 oz. ; with a little white-oak bark, may be added to 
the wine tincture to adapt it to these particular cases, taking 
a w^ine-glass, if it can be borne, from 3 to 5 times daily. Do- 
mestic wine can be used in place of the Port, in making the 
tonic wine tincture. 

1. A very good w^ay to take iron, is to go to a blacksmith 
and have him take a piece of nail-rod, a foot or two in length, 
and heat it, letting it cool in the cinders of the forge, which 
softens it ; then have him file it all up for you, saving the 
filings on a piece of paper, with wiiich filings, mix as much 
ground ginger, rubbing them thoroughh^ together. Dose — 
Half of a tea-spoon three times daily, in a little honey or mo 
lasses. The natural action of the iron upon the system wall 
be to make the stools dark, or nearly black, so do not be fear- 
ful about that condition ; for, without it, we should not be 
sure of the desired action of the iron. Let the use of the iron 
be kept up for two or three months at least, or until health is 
obtained. 

In places where it may be difficult to get the iron filings, 
given in No. 1., the sweet liquor of the protoxide of iron, kept 
by druggists, the technical name of w^llichisZ/^g. Ferri Protox- 
idi Dulc, may be used in i^lace of that, a dose of wiiich v^rill 



212 DR. 

be about one teaspoon 3 times daily, just after meals. I have 
prescribed this preparation with very great success, contin- 
uing its use, in one very bad case, nearly a year. 

With the above treatment, let there be a warm bath taken, 
once a week, putting into the water a quart or two of weak- 
lye, made by putting a fire-shovel or two of wood ashes into 
the water and stirring up well, and let stand a while, then 
pour off into the bathing water. Castile-soap will do about 
as well, but common soap is not as good. Wash w^ell, and 
wipe off the water from the body, then with a dry coarse tow- 
el, have some one to rub the whole body and limb.s briskly 
unti the surface glows with warmth and comfort. 

For diet, moderate quantities of broiled pork, broiled beef, 
baked beef or mutton, wild game &c., baked or broiled, with 
bread baked, at least, the day before, roast or baked potatoes, 
with but little butter, unless ver}^ nice, or just made, then, not 
very freely. This treatment, and diet, will soon overcome 
the softness of the flesh, and give strength for the necessary 
exercise, which will remove the dullness and drowsy, languid 
feelings. The exercise may be labor about the house, but 
better to be out of doors, as gardening, romping, swinging, 
singing and riding, or running, when it can be borne, with 
agreeable company, travel, &c. The following pill will be 
found a gentle and excellent cathartic, or laxative : 

2. Female Laxative Pill.— Aloes, macrotin, and cream 
of tartar, of each 2 drs. ; podophylin and ground ginger, 1 dr. 
each ; make into common sized pills by using oil of pepper- 
mint 15 to 20 drops and thick solution of gum Arabic mucil- 
age. Dose — One pill at bed time, or two if found necessary, 
and sufficiently often to keep the bowels just in a solvent con- 
dition, but not le?s often than once a week. 

If the aloes should not agree with any, they may use tho 
following : 

3. Female Laxative and Anodyne Till. — Macrotin 
and rhubarb, of each 10 grs. ; extract of hyoscyamus, 10 grs ; 
Castile-soap, 40 grs. ; scrape the soap and mix well together, 
forming into common sized pills with gum solution as in the 
above recipe. Dose — One pill, as the other, or sufficiently 
often to keep the bowels solvent, but not too loose. The hy- 
oscyamus tends to ciuiet the nerves w^ithout constipating the 
bowels. 

Some females are always troubled with pains, to a greater 
o)' less degree, in the commencement of these periods, and 
some through the whole period. The follow^ing pill will be 
found very soothing and quieting to the nervous system of all 
such persons. 



4. Pill for Painful Menstruation — Anodyne — Ex- 
tract of stramonium and sulphate of quinine, of each 16 grs. ; 
macrotin*8 grs. ; morphine, 1 gr, ; make into 8 pills. Dose 
— One pill, repeating once or twice only, 40 minutes to an 
hour apart, if the pain does not subside. If the pain subsides, 
there is no need of repeating the dose. The advantage of this 
pill is that costiveness is not increased, and pain must subside 
under its use. 

5. TE.t— Injection for Leucorrhea. — In cases of leucor- 
rhea which continue any length of time, the following decoc- 
tion, will be found very valuable as an injection : 

The inner bark of the common hemlock tree, and the leaves 
and bark of the witch-hazel, sometimes called spotted-alder, 
an ounce of each, will make a quart of the decoction, a little 
of which, with a female syringe, should be injected, morning 
and evening, while in a recumbent position. 

If the case does not yield to the above in a few days then 
use a little of the following, in the same way : 

6. Injection for Leucorrhea. — White vitriol and 
sugar of lead, of each 10 grs. ; common salt, loaf sugar 

and pulverized alum, of each 5 grs. ; soft water, 1 pt. Sim- 
mer all over a slow fire for ten or fifteen minutes, when cool 
strain' and bottle, keeping well corked. When desired to use, 
pour out about half as much as needed and put an equal 
amount of soft water with it, and inject, as of the above. It 
may be reduced with more soft water if there should be 
sufficient infiammation to cause much uneasiness. A little 
uneasines is expected, however, and necessary. 

7. In cases of permanent falling of the womb, a good pes- 
sary may be made of a piece of fine, firm sponge, cut to a 
proper size to admit, when dam}), of being placed in the 
varmia to hold tlie womb to its place. The sponge should 
have a stout piece of small cord sewed two or three times 
through its center, and left of suflicient length to aid in its 
removal, morning and evening, for the purpose of cleansing 
it, using the necessar}^ injections, &c. After having injected 
either Ko. 5 or 6 of the above, as thought preferable, the 
sponge having been thoroughly washed and pressed dry, it 
will be again introduced sufficiently high to hold the womb in 
place. Eemembering, however, in almost all of these cases 
of falling of the womb, that the patient will find it necessary 
to keep the bed until well, or very much relieved. 

One thing is very evident in these cases of debility ; the 
blood is deficient in iron ; consequently that article should en- 

=^' Note.— Macrotin, Podophylin, <^'c., are kept by all Eclectic Phy- 
si-cians and should be kept by ali druggists. 



214 DR. chase's r:bcipes. 

ter largely into any medicine intended for its relief; and in 
most cases the iron-filings and ginger, or the sweet liquor, will 
be found, continued for two or three months, all the medicine 
required ; and the iron must not be omitted in any case whatev- 
er. Iron is the iiviin-spoke in these femnle- wheels, and very 
valuable in general debility of males as v;ell as females. 

For real hemorrhage, which may be known by the coagula- 
tion (clotting) of the blood, as the menstrual &ow does not 
coagulate, see "Uterine Hemorrhage," or the ''St}^tic Bal- 
sam," but for profuse or long continued flowing or wasting, 
use the following : 

8. Powder for Excessive Flooding. — G-ums kino and 
catechu, of each 1 dr. ; sugar of lead and alum, of each 1-2 dr. ; 
pulverize all and thoroughly mix, then divide into 7 to 10 
grain powders. Dose — One every 2 to 3 hours until checked, 
then less often, merely to control the flow. 

If any female, into whose hands this book shall come, will 
carefully study and use the foregoing rational remarks and 
prescriptions, and is not an hundred times better pleased with 
the results than she would have been by calling half of the 
physicians of the day, I should be very much disappointed, 
and I would be sure that the remedies did not have their com- 
mon efi'ects, which, I feel, will not be the case from the great 
good they have already done, many times ; besides they save 
the delicacy of exposures, in many instances; and they will al- 
ways save the delicacy of conversing with and explaining 
their various feelings and conditions, to one of the opposite 
sex. So highly important is this fact — that the information 
should become general — every gir], old or young, ought to be 
furnished with " Dr. Chase's Recipes," ancl also receive all the 
additional instruction that a mother's experience can give her. 



IANr«ER'S, SHOE, AND HARNESS MAKER'S 
DEPARTIV8ENT. 

CX)LORS — Best Color for Boot, Shoe, and Harness 
Ei)GE, AND Ink Which Cannot Freeze.— Alcohol 1 pt.; tinc- 
ture of iron li oz.; extract of logwood 1 oz.; nutgalls, pulver- 
ised, 1 oz.; soft water i pt.; mix. Or: 

2. Take alcohol 1 pt.; extract of logwood and tincture of iron, 
of each 1 oz.; nutgalls, pulverized, 1 oz.; and sweet oil i oz.; 
mix. 

I have found shoemakers using these colors, each think- 
ing he had the best color in the world, The sweet oil is 
believed to prevent the hot iron from sticking, and to make 
a better polish. 

The first one makes a very passable ink for winter use, 
by carrying a quick hand to prevent it from spreading in 
the paper, from the presence of the alcohol, which, of course, 
is what prevents it from freezing, and that is the only argu- 
*saent in favor of it as an ink for writing purposes. 

3. Cheap Color for the Edge.— Soft water 1 gal.; extract 
of logwod 1 oz.; and boil them until the extract is dissolved, 
then remove from the fire and add copperas 2 ozs.; bi-chromate 
of potash and gum arable, of each ^ oz.; all to be pulverized. 

This makes a cheap and good color for shoe or harness 
edge, but for cobbling or for new work, upon which you do 
not wish to use the '^ hot kit/^ but finish with heel-ball, you 
will find that if, as you pour this out into the bottle to use, you 
put a table-spoon of lamp-black to each pint of ii it will 
make a blacker and nicer finish. It makes a good color for 
cheap work, but for fine work, nothing will supercede the 
first colors given. This also makes a very good ink Lor 
writing purposes, if kept corked to avoid evaporation, which 
makes it gummy or sticky. See also "Grain Side Blacking.'' 

4. Sizing for Boots and Shoes, in Treeing-out. — Take 
water 1 qt., and dissolve in it, by heat, isinglass 1 oz., adding 
more water to make up for evaporation ; when dissolved, add 
Btarch 6 oz.; extract of logwood, bees-wax, and tallow, of each 3 
oz.; and continue the heat until all is melted and well mixed. 
Kub the starch up first, by pouring on sufficient boiling water 
for ikat purpose. 

(215) 



216 DR. chase's recipes 

It makes boots and shoes soft and pliable, applying it 
when treeing-ont, and is especially nice to clean up work 
which has stood long on the shelves. 

5. Watefv-Proop Oil-Paste Blacking. — Take camphene 1 
pi., and put into it all the India-rubber it will dissolve; w^hen 
*]issolved, add currier's oil 1 pt.; tallow 6 lbs.; lamp-black 3 ozs/ 
mix thoroughly by heat. 

This is a nice thing for old harness or carriage tops, as 
well as for boots and shoes. Or you can dissolve the rubber 
in txie oil by setting them in rather a hot place for a day or 
two ; and save the expense of camphene, as that is of no 
use only as a solvent to the rubber. There are those, how- 
ever, who do not like to use the r^^hher^ thinking it rots the 
leather ; then use the following : 

6. Water-Proop Paste Without Rubber.— Take tallow 1 
lb.; bees-wax ^ lb.; castor or neats-ibot oil ^ pt.; and lamp-black 
J oz.; mix by heat. Or: 

7. Neat^s-Foot Oil, brought to a proper consisteno with 
a little bees- wax and tallow ; colored with lamp-black, will be 
found proof against snow or water. 

8. Some, however, may prefer the followi'^i.g manner of 
preserving their boots and shoes, from a -orrespondent of 
the Mechanics^ Gazette ; but if they do me boots must be 
made large, from the fact that the preparation has a ten- 
dency to shrink the leather. He says : " I have had only 
three pair of boots for the last six years, (no shoes) and I 
think I shall not require any more the next six years to 
come. The reason is, that I treat them in the following 
manner : 

" I put 1 lb. of tallow and t pound of rosin in a pot on the fire ; 
when melted and mixed, 1 warm the boots and apply the hot 
Btuft with a painter's brush until neither the sole nor the ujyper 
will soak in any more. If it is desired that the boots should 
immediately take a polish, dissolve 1 oz. of wax in spirits of tur- 
pentine, to w^hich add a tea-spoon of lamp-black A day after 
the boot^ have been treated with the tallow and rosin, rub over 
thehi this wax in turpentine, but not before the fire. 

'' Thus the exterior will hav^ a coat of wax alone, and will 
shine like a mirror. Tallow ot any other grease becomes 
lancid, and rots the stitching ajs well as the leather, but the 
rosin gives it that antiseptic quality which preserves the 
whole. Boots and shoes should be made so large as to ad- 



LEATHER-WOKKING DEPARTMENT. 217 

mit of wearing cork soles. Cork is so bad a conductor of 
heafc, that with it in the boots, the feet are always warm on 

the coldest stone fioor/' 

9. Black Vaknish for Edge.— Take 98 per cent alcohol 1 
pt. ; shellac 3 ozs. ; rosin 2 ozs. ; pine turpentine 1 oz. ; lamp- 
black ■} oz. ; mix, and when the gums are all cut, it is ready to 
use ; but bear in mind that low proof alcohol will not cut gums 
properly, for any varnish. 

This, applied to a boot or shoe edge, with a brush, gives 
it the shining gloss resembling much of the Eastern work. 
It is also applicable to wood or cloth requiring a gloss, after 
naving been painted. 

10. Varnish for Hari^tess, the Best in Use. — Take 98 per 
cent alcohol 1 gal. ; white pine turpentine 14- lbs.; gum sheliar 
1^ lbs. ; Venice turpentine 1 gill. Let these stand in a jug ii 
the sun or by a stove until the gums are dissolved, then add 
sweet oil 1 gill, and lamp-black 2 ozs., rub the lamp-black first 
with a little of the varnish. 

This varnish is better than the old style, from the fact 
that it's polish is as good, and it does not crack when the 
harness is twisted or knocked about. 

If you 'wish a varnish for fair leather, make it as the 
above, in a clean jug, but use no lamp-black. The pine 
turpentine and sweet oil make it pliable, yet not sticky. 

TANKING, BLACKING, AND FINISHING.— Process for 
Calf, Kip, and Harness, in prom Six to Thirty Days. — For 
a 12 lb. calf skin, take terra-japonica 3 lbs. ; common salt 2 lbs.; 
aJum 1 lb. ; put these into a copper kettle with sufficient water 
10 dissolve the whole by boiling. 

The skin, or skins, will first be limed, haired, and treated 
'11 every way as for the old process ; then it will be put 
^nto a vessel with sufficient water to cover it, at which time 
fovL will put in one pint of the composition, stirring it well : 
idHing the same amount each night and morning for three 
>iays, when you will add the whole ; handling two or three 
;imes daily all the time tanning ; you can continue to use 
the tanning liquid by adding half the quantity each time, 
of new liquor, and by keeping these proportions for any 
i-mount, and if you desire to give the leather the appearance 
of bark color, you will put in one pound of Sicily sumac. 

Kip skins will require about twenty days, light horse 
iides for harness, thirty days, to make good leather, while 



218 DR. chase's recipes. 

calf skins will only require from six to ten days at most. 
The japonica is put up in large cakes of about one hundred 
and fifty pounds, and sells, in common times, at about foujf 
cents per pound, in New York 

Byron Rose, a tanner, of Madison, 0., says that od^ 
quart of oil of vitriol to fifty sides of leather^ with the japon- 
ica and alum, as above, leaving out the salt, will very much 
improve it; the acid opens the pores, quickening the pro 
cess without injury to the leather. 

2. Canadian Process. — The Canadians make fou> 
liquors in using the japonica : 

The FIRST liquor is made by dissolving, for 20 sides of upper, 
15 lbs. of terra japonica in suflicient water to cover the upper, 
being tanned. The second liquor contains the same amount of 
japonica, and 8 lbs. of saltpetre also. The third contains 20 
lbs. of japonica, and 4^ lbs. of alum. The fourth liquor con- 
tai33S only 15 lbs. of japonica, an^ li lbs. of sulphuric acid; and 
the leather remains 4 days in each liquor for upper ; and for sole, 
the quantities and time are both doubled. They count 50 calf 
skins in place of 20 sides of upper, but let them lie in each 
liquor only 3 days. 

3. Deer Skins— Tanning and Buffing for Glovfs. — For 
each, skin, take a bucket of water, and put into it 1 qt. of lime ; 
let the skin or skins lay in from 3 to 4 days ; then rinse in clean 
water, hair, and grain ; then soak them in cold water to get out 
the glue ; now scour or pound in good soap suds, for half an 
hour; after which take white vitriol, alum, and salt, 1 table- 
spoon of each to a skin ; these will be dissolved in sufficient water 
to cover the skin and remain in it for 24 hours ; wring out as 
dry as convenient ; and spread on with a brush ^ pt. of currier'3 
oil, and hang in the sun about 2 days ; after which you will 
scour out the oil with soap suds, and hang out again until per- 
fectly dry ; then pull and work them until they are soft ; and if 
a reasonable time does not make them soft, scour out in suds 
again as before, until complete. The oil may be saved by pour- 
ing or taking it from the top of the suds, if left standing a short 
time. The buff color is given by spreading yellow ochre evenly 
over the surface of the skin, when finished, rubbing it in welj 
with a brush. 

The foregoing plan was pursued for a number of years by 
a brother of mine, and I have worn the gloves and know 
the value of the recipe ; but there are plans of using acid, 
and if the quantity is not too great, there is no reason in the 
world why it may not be used ; the only caution necessary is 
*^ sec that the strength of amd doea nat kill ^h^^ nutnv^ of 



LEATHER- WaKKiNa DEPARTMBI^^. 219 

tli« leather ; in proper quantities it tans only, instead of de- 
stroying the fiber. I will give a couple of the most valuable 
methods. 

4. Tanning witn Acid. — After having removed the hair, 
scouring, soaking, and pounding in the suds, &c., as m the last 
recipe, in place of the white vitriol, alum, and salt, as there 
mentioned, take oil of vitriol, (sulphuric acid) and water, equal 
parts of each, and thoroughly wet the flesh-side of the skin 
with it, by means of a sponge or cloth upon a stick; then 
foldi g up the skin, letting it lie for 20 minutes only, having 
caclyn a solution of sal soda and water, say one lb» to a bucke 
of water, and soak the skin or skins in that for 2 hours, whet 
vou will wash in clean water and apply a little dry salt,lettinn 
tie in the salt over night, or that length of time ; then removg 
the flesh with a blunt knife, or, if doing business on a large 
scale, by means of the regular beam and flesh-knife ; when dryc 
or nearly so, soften by pulling and rubbing with the hands, 
and also with a piece of pumice-stone. This, of course, is the 
quickest way of tanning, and by only wetting the skins with, 
the acid and soaking out in twenty mmutes, they are noe 
rotted 

5. Another Method. — Oil of vitriol i oz.; salt 1 teacupof 
milk sufficient to handsomely cover the skin, not exceeding 3 
qts.; warm the milk, then add the salt and vitriol; stir the 
skin in the Mquid 40 minutes, keeping it warm ; then dry and- 
work it as directed in No. 4. 

6, Tanning Sheep-Skins, Applicable for Mittens 
Door-Mats, Robes, &c. — For mats, take two long-wooled 
skins, make a strong suds, using hot water ; when it is cold 
wash the skins in it, carefully squeezing them between the 
hands to get the dirt out of the wool; then wash the soap 
out with clean cold water. Now dissolve alum and salt, of 
each half a pound, with a little hot water, which put into a 
tub of cold water sufficient to cover the skins, and let them 
soak in it over night, or twelve hours, then hang over a pole 
to drain. When they are well drained, spread or stretch 
carefully on a board to dry. They need not be tacked if 
you will draw them out, several times with the hand, while 
drying. When yet a little damp, have one ounce, each, 
of saltpetre and alum, pulverized, and sprinkle on the flesh- 
side of each skin, rubbing in well ; then lay the flesh-sides 
together and hang in the shade for two or three days, turn 
ingthe under skin uppermost every day, until perfectly dry 
Then scrape the flesh-side with a blunt knife, to remove any 
remaining scraps of flesh, trim off projecting points, and rub 



220 DR. chase's aECIPES. 

the flesh-side with pumice or rotten stone, and with th\ 
hands ; they will be very white and beautiful, suitable foi 
a foot-mat, also nice in a sleigh or wagon of a cold day, 
They also make good robes, in place of the buffalo, if col- 
ored, and sewed together. And iamb-skins, (or sheep-skins, 
if the wool is trimmed off evenly to about one-half or three 
fourths of an inch in length) make most beautiful and warm 
mittens for ladies, or gentlemen. 

7. Tanning Fur and Other Skins — Fifty Dollar 
Recipe. — First, — Remove the legs and other useless parts, 
and soak the skin soft ; then remove the fleshy substances 
and soak in warm water for an hour ; now : 

Take for each skin, borax, saltpetre, and glauber-salts, of each 
i 0Z.3 and dissolve or wet with soft water sufficient to allow it to 
be spread on the flesh-side of the skin. 

Put it on with a brush, thickest in the centre or thickest 
part of the skin, and double the skin together, flesh-side in^ 
keeping it in a cool place for twenty-four hours, not allow 
ing it to freeze, however. 

Second, ^ — Wash the skin clean, and then : 
Take sal-soda 1 oz. ; borax ^ oz. ; refined soap 2 ozs. ; (Col 

fate's white soap is recommended as the best, but our " White 
[ard Soap" is the same quality, ) ; melt them slowly together, 
being careful not to allow them to boil, and apply the mixture to 
the flesh-side as at first — roll up again and keep in a warm 
place for 24 hours. 

Third. — Wash the skin clean, as above, and have salera- 
tus two ounces, dissolved in hot rain water sufficient to well 
saturate the skin, then : 

Take alum 4 ozs. ; salt 8 ozs. ; and dissolve also in hot rain 
water; when sufficiently cool to allow the handling of it with- 
out scalding, put in the skin for 12 hours ; then wring out tae 
Waaler and hang up, for 12 hours more, to dry. Repeat this last 
soaking and drying from 2 to 4 times, according to the desired 
'oftness of the skin when finished. 

Lastly, — Finish by pulling, working, &c., and finally bj 
rubbing with a piece of pumice-stone and fine sand-paper. 

This works admirably on sheep-skins as well as on fur- 
skins, dog, cat, or wolf-skins also, making a durable leathei 
well adapted to washing. 

A man in our county paid fiifty dollars for this recipe, an<S 



LEATHER-WORKING DEPART&IENT. 221 

/)as made his money out of it many times. It is very valu- 
able. 

8. Tanning Deer and Woodchuck-skins for Whips, 
Strings, &c. — Prepare the skin according to the last recipe, 
then: 

Take oil of vitriol 1 oz. ; salt 1 pt. ; milk 8 qts. ; mix. 

Now dip the skin in warm rain water having sufficient 
saleratus in it to make it rather strong, or as in the third 
head of last recipe, and work and squeeze it well for a few 
minutes, then wring dry as convenient and put it into the 
vitriol mixture for fifty minutes, stirring all the time ; now 
wring out and soak awhile ; and finally dry and work until 
soft. 

9. Grain-side Blacking, for Ten Cents a Barrel. — Take 
a barrel and put into it quite a quantity of old iron, cast or 
wi'ought, then fill nearly full of soft water, and add 1 pt. of oil 
of vitrei ; stir it up well, and in a month or two you have just 
as good blacking for the grain-side, as could be made by using 
vinegar in place of water. 

This makes good blacking for boot, shoe, or harness edge, 
also. The acid used is so trifling that no injury will arise 
to the leather. 

Tanners will, of course, first apply the urine before ap- 
plying the blacking, saving from ten to twenty dollars 
yearly, in this way, instead of the old plan of using vine- 
gar. 

10. French Finish, for Leather. — Take a common 
wooden pail of scraps, (the legs and pates of calf-skins are 
the best) and put a handful each, of salt and pulverized 
alum amongst them and let them stand three days ; then boil 
them until you get a thick paste; in using you will w^arm 
it; in the first application, put a little tallow with it, and 
for the second, a little soft soap, and use it in the regular 
way of finishing, and your leather will be soft and pliable, 
like the French calf-skin. 

1 have no doubt that this would make a good preparation 
for shoemakers to use in treeing-out, leaving a soft pliable- 
ness, not otherwise obtained. 

11. French Patent Leather. — The process which haa 
beeu so successfully adopted by the French artisans in glaz- 
ing leather, no as to give it the repute for superior quality 



222 Da. cnASE's recipes. 

and beauty which it now universally sustains, is as follows : 

^York into the skin with appropriate tools three or four sue 
cessive coatings of drying varnish, made by boiling linseed-oii 
with white-lead and litharge, in the proportion of one pound of 
each of the latter to a gallon of the former, and adding a por- 
tion of chalk or ochre — each coating being thoroughly dried be- 
fore the application of the next. Ivory black is then substituted 
for the chalk or ochre, the varnish thinned with spirits of tur- 
pentine, and five additional applications made in the same man- 
ner as before, except that it is put on thin and not worked in. 
The leather is rubbed down with pumice-stone, in powder, and 
then placed in a room at 90 degs., out of the way of dust. The 
last varnish is prepared by boiling i lb. of asphaltum with 10 lbs. 
of the drying oil used in the first step of the process, and tnen 
stirring in 5 lbs. of copal varnish and 10 lbs. of turpentine. 

It must have a month's age before it is fit for use, bf 
order to exhibit its true characteristics. — V. /S. Gazette* 



PAINTER'S DEPARTMENT. 

DRYING OILS— To Prepare for Carriage, Wagon, ajto 
Floor Painting. — Take linseed oil 1 gal., and add gum shellac 
2- lbs. ; litharge i lb. ; red-lead i lb. ; umber 1 oz. Boil slowly, 
2 or 3 hours, until the gums are dissolved. 

Grind your paints in this (any color) and reduce with 
turpentine. Yellow ochre is used for floor painting. This 
dries quick and wears exceedingly well. 

2. Drying Oil, Equal to the Patent Dryers.— Linseed-oil 
2 gals., and add litharo:e, red-lead, and umber, of each 4 ozs,, and 
sugar of lead and sulphate of zinc, of each 3 ozs. 

Boil until it will scorch a feather. Use this, or either 
of the others, in quantity to suit the object of the work 
being done. 

3. Japan Dryer of the Best Quality.-— Taivo linseed oiJ 1 

fal., and put into it gum shellac f lb. ; litharge and burned Tur- 
ey umber, of each i lb. ; red-lead ^ lb., and sugar of lead 6 ozs. 
Boil in the oil until all are dissolved, which will require al»ut 4 
hours ; remove from the fire, and add spirits of turpentine 1 gal., 
and it is done. 

While in Princeton, Ind., after selling one of my books 
to T. & J. T. Ewing, extensive carriage manufacturer? of 



painter's department. 228 

that place, I obtained the foregoing recipe. It was pub- 
lished in a work printed in Columbus, 0., devoted to the 
art of painting, From this fact, and also that the gentle- 
men from whom I obtained it, had tested it and were using 
it, I have not myself tried it, but know, from the nature 
of the articles used, that nothing better will be required. 

4. Another. — Another dryer is made by taking linseed oil 5 
gals,, and adding red-lead and litharge, of each 8^ lbs. ; raw 
umber IJ lbs. ; sagar of lead and sulphate of zinc, of each i lb.; 
pulverize all the articles together, and boil in the oil until dis- 
solved ; when a little cool, add turpentine, 5 gals., or to make i\ 
of a proper consistence. 

The gentleman of whom I obtained this recipe paid ten 
dollars for it. He was using it successfully, and said he 
used two or three drops of it to a quart of varnish also^ 
and especially when the varnish did not dry readily. 

OIL— PAIISTT-— To Reduce with Water.— Take gum shel 
lac 1 lb. ; sal-soda i lb. ; water 3 pts. ; put all into a suitable 
kettle and boil, stirring till all is dissolved. If it does not all 
dissolve, add a little more sal-soda ; this, when cool, can be bot- 
tled for use. If it smells bad when opened it does not hurt it, 

Directions for Using. — Mix up two quarts of oil paint 
as usual, except no turpentine is to be used — any color de- 
sired. Now put one pint of the gum shellac mixture with 
the oil paint when it becomes thick, and may be reduced 
with water to a proper consistence to lay on with a brush. 
Two coats will be required, and with the second coat sand 
may be applied if desired. I used this upon a picket-fence 
with white-lead and yellow ochre for the body and a little 
lamp-black to give it a dark shade, putting on sand with 
the second coat. It is still firm and good, the work being 
done nearly four years ago. 

The sand was applied with a tub-like box, with many 
small holes to allow the even spreading of the sand, as with 
a pepper-box. I do not regret using this kind of paint, nor 
the sanding, as it adds much to the durability of any out- 
door painting. But a better plan of sanding is represented 
in the ^^ Painter's Sanding Apparatus '^ below. 

? Another Method.— Take soft w^ater 1 gal., and dissoiya 
in It, pearlash 3 ozs.: bring to a boil, and slowly add shellac 1 
lb.; when cold it is ready to be added to oil-paint, in equal pro» 
ixjrtions. The expense of these is only one- third of oil-paint 



h 



XA 



im, onASE'S RECIPES. 



Some persons may think it bad policy to learn painters to 
reduce oil-paint with water, but I think every man should 
be told of the plan, who is going to have a job of work done, 
and if he makes up his mind to try any thing of the kind, it 
IS then his own business ; and I am perfectly sincere in 
recommending it, for if there was any great fault in ii four 
years would show it. 




PAINTER S SANDING APPARATUS 

8. It is made of tin: the tube C, enters upon the no«U 
of a small bellows ; tlie sand is put into the funnel B, which 
stands perpendicular upon the apparatus when the broac? 
mouth-piece A, is held level in using. The funnel dis- 
charges the sand, just before the nozzle of the bellows : and 
by working the bellows the sand is blown evenly upon the 
freshly put on paint, through the mouth-piece A, the escape 
orifice not being over the sixteenth part of an inch in 
depth, and may be. made two and a half or three inches wide. 

Many persons like the plan of sanding generally, after 
painting ] but from the fact that when it is desired to renew 
the paint, brushes cannot last long upon the sand, I think it 
only proper to sand fences or fronts, where boys' knivet 
would be too freely used. 

PAINT SKINS— To Save and REorcE to Oil.— Dissolve 
«il-soda ^ lb., in rain-water 1 gal. 

The skins that dry upon the top of paint, which has been 
left standing for any length of time, may be made fit for U3« 
again by covering them with the sal- soda-water and soaking 
them therein for a couple of days ; then heat them, adding 
oil to reduce the mixture to a proper consistence for paint- 
ing, and straining. Painters who are doing extensive busi- 
ness will save many dollars yearly by this Fvimple process. 



PAFNTER's DBPAaTMKNT. 225 

NEW TIN ROOFS— Valuable Process for PArsx- 
XNQ. — Scrape off the rosia as clean as possible and swsep 
the roof; now: 

Dissolve suificient sal-soda in a backet of water to maice it 
quite strong ; wash the roof thoroughly with the soda-wator and 
let it remahi until it is washed off by the rains, ^r afler a few 
hiours, washing off with clean water, rinsing well. 

When dry give it one coat of pure Venetian-red, mixed 
with one-third boiled, and two-thirds raw linseed-oil ; tho 
eecond coat may be any color desired. The soda-water dis- 
solves the rosin remaining after scraping ; destroys the 
greasy nature of the solder, and of the new tin, so that there 
will be sufficient ''Grip" for the paint to adhere firmly. 
The pure Vcnetian-rcd is one of the most durable paints for 
metallic-roofs, but is often rejected on account of its color. 
The above mode of painting will set aside ihis difficulty. 

2. Fire-Proof Paint— for Roofs, &c.— Slack stone-lime by 
putting it into a tub, to be covered, to keep in the steam. When 
slacked, pass the powder through a fine sieve ; and to each 6 
(|ts. of it add, 1 qt. of rock-salt, and water 1 gal.; then boil and 
ekim ''Jean. To eacli 5 gals, of this add, pulverized alum 1 lb. 
f^ulve.'ized copperas ^ lb.; and still slowly add powdered potast 
I lb.; then fine sand or hickory ashes 4 lbs. 

N yw add any desired color, and apply with a brush — looks 
better than paint, and is as durable as slate. It stops sinaL 
leaks in roofs, prevents moss, and makes it incombustible • 
and renders brick impervious to wet. — Maine Farmer, 

3. Water-Proof, Oil-Rubber PAiNT.—Dissolve about 5 lbs. 
of India rubber in 1 gal. of boiled linseed- oil, by boiling. If 
this is too thick, reduce with boiled-oil; if too thin, use more 
rubber. 

Especially applicable to cloth, but valuable for aaj other 
material. 

Frosting Glass. — The frostyappearanc3 of glass, which 
we oftca -ee, where it is desired to keep out the sun, or 
^* Man i observing eye,'' is done by using a paint composed 
as follows : 

Sugar of lead well ground m oil, applied as other paint ; then 
pounced, while fresh, with a wad of batting held between tho 
thumb and finger. 

After which it is allowed to partially dry ] then with a 
itraight-edge laid upon the sash, you run along by the side 



226 DR. chase's RECIPJSS. 

of it, a stick sharpened to the width of line you wish to ap- 
pear in the diamonds, figures, or squares, into which you 
choose to lay it off; most frequently, however, straight lines 
are made an inch or more from the sash, according to the 
size of light, then the centre of the light made into dia- 
monds. 

ORIENTAL— Crystaj; Painting.— The colors used 
are Prussian-blue, crimson, white, and yellow-lakes, Eos- 
scan, white-zinc, and No. 40 carmine. Druggists keep them, 
in small tubes. They must be mixed with Demar-varnish, 
rubbing with a table-knife or spatula upon glass. 

Directions for ]Makinq Various Shades, or Compound 
Colors. — Proportion them ab<3Lit as follows — tor green 1-5 blue, 
4-5 yellow— purple, 1-G blue, 5-6 (crimson — orange, J- crimson, f 
yellow — wine-color, 1-12 blue, 11-12 crimson — pink, add a liiilo 
crimson to white-ziuc — brown, mix a dark purple and add yel- 
low according to the shade desired — black, add crimson to dark 
green until the shade suits you — to make the compound coiora 
lighter, add the lightest color in it, and make darker by using 
more of the darkest color in the compound. For backgrounds 
—white, white-zinc, or pink vrhite with turpentine and boiled 
inseed-oil and Demar-varnish — black, lamp-black, with asphai 
urn- varnish and boiled linseed-oil and turpentine in equal quan- 
tities — flesh-color, white-zinc with a small portion of crimson 
and chrome-yellow to suit. For sketching out the figures on 
the ground-work, use a little lamp-black with asphaltum- varnish, 
turpentine and boiled linseed-oil to make it flow freely. 

Directions for Painting. — Make your glass perfectly 
clean, and place it over the picture you wish to copy; then 
with the sketching preparation, trace on the glass all thd 
lines connected with the figures of the picture which yoti 
are copying, being careful to sketch vines very distinct ; 
when tlie sketching is done and dry, proceed to lay on the 
background inside of the sketched lines until all the sketch- 
ing is closed ; and when the background is dry, proceed to 
put on the colors, commencing with green, if any in the 
figures, ending with yellow. When the colors are all laid, 
put the background upon the balance of the glass 3 and 
when all is dry have tin foil crumpled very much in yonf 
hand, and then partly straightened out, and lay it over th« 
figure and keep it in its place by pasting paper over it m 
Buch a manner that it cannot slip away, letting the pa^ei 
cover the whole back of the glass, or a wood-back oa& Se 



painters' DJEPABTMENT. 227 

placed ibehind the glass, and all is complete, and will look 
well or ill, according to the practice nnd taste of the painter. 
2. I;ancy Green. — Unscoiched, pulverized coffee, put 
into the white of an egg will, in twenty-four hours, produce 
a very beautiful green for fancy painting — proof of poison, 
in unbrowncd coffee. 

SKETCHING PAPER—To Phef/rk.— Bleached linseed-oD, 
turpentine and balsam of fir, equal parts of each ; mix. 

Have a frame of a little less size than the paper to be 
prepared, and apply paste or thick gum solution to one side 
and the outer edge of it ; wet the paper in clean water and 
lay it upon the frame and press it down upon the pasted 
side of the frame, and turn the outer part of the paper over 
the outside of the frame upon the paste there, which holds 
it firm ; and when it becomes dry it is tight like a drum- 
head; whilst in this condition, with a brush saturate it with 
the above mixture; three or four coat^ will be needed, giv- 
ing each one time to dry before applyia^ the next. Only 
sufficient is needed to make it transparent, so that when you 
wish to sketch a rose, or other flower or leaf, from nature, 
the paper can be placed upon it like the glass in the ^' Ori- 
ental Painting ^' ; then trace the lines and finish it up in the 
same way also, as there described ; or that you may see 
through it in taking perspective views of distant scenery, 

DOOR PLATES— To Make.— Cut your glass the right size, 
and make it perfectly clean with alcohol or soap ; then cut a 
dtrip of tin-foil sufficiently long and wide for the name, and with 
a piece of ivory or other burnisher rub it lengthwise to make it 
smooth ; now wet the ^lass with the tongue, (as saliva is the best 
sticking substance,) or if the glass is very large, use a weak solu- 
tion of gum arable, or the white of an egg in half a pint of 
water and lay on the foil, rubbing it dow^n to the glass T\'ith a bit 
of cloth, then also with the burnisher ; the more it is burnished 
the better will it look ; now mark the width on the foil w hich ia 
to be the hight of the letter, and put on a straight-edge and hold 
it firmly to the foil, and with a sharp laiife cut the foil and take 
off the superfluous edges ; then either lay out the letters on the 
back of the foil, (so they shall read correctly on the frout) by 
your own judgment or by means of pattern-letters, which can be 
purchasod for that purpose ; cut with the knife, carefully hold- 
ing down the pattern or straight-edge, whichever you use ; then 
rub down the edge of all the letters with the back of the knife, 
or edge of the burnisher, which prevents the black paint or 
lapan which you next put over the baek of the plate, from get;- 



228 PR coASE'a recipes. 

ting unde* the foil ; having put a H»e above and oDe bwtr«5r the 
name, or a border aroiind the whole plate or not, as you oargain 
for the job. The japan is made by dissolving asphaltum in just 
enough turpentine to cut it (see *' Asphaltum Varnish ") ; apply 
-with a brush as other paint over the back of the letters and over 
the glass, forming a background. This is used on the iron frame 
of the plate also, putting it on when the plate is a little hot, and 
as soon as it cools it is dry. A little lamp-black may be rubbed 
bito it if you desire it any blacker than it is without it, 

L£ you choose, you can remove every other foil letter, 
after the japan is dry, and paint in its place, red, blue, oi 
other colored letters, to make a greater variety out of which 
for your customers to choose, as the one they desire you to 
follow in getting up their plate. Tin foil being thicker 
than silver or gold foil, will not show the paint through it 
in little spots as they do; but if these foils are desired to 
be used, you can put on two thicknesses by proceeding as 
follows, which prevents the paint from showing through 
them : Lay 9n the first coat of these foils the same as di- 
reeled for the tin-foil, and smooth it down by rubbing on 
the iront of the glass ; then breathe on it until a dampne>^a 
is caused ; now put on the second and burnish well, having 
paper over it ; but instead of the knife to cut around your 
pattern or straight-edge, take a sharp needle, using the point, 
make lines through the leaf around the pattern letter or 
straiglit-edge ; then with a bit of Jewelers' wood, or other 
hard wood, made to a narrow and sharp point, remove all 
up to the lines, both in and around the letters, as these 
foils have not the substance to peel off as the tin-foil , japan- 
ning over them the same as the other letters. Paper letters 
can be cut out of advertisements and put on by wetting the 
glass the same as for the foil, jappanning over them, and 
when dry, removing them and painting the places out of 
which they came with various colors as desired, as the japa® 
will not peel, but makes a sharp and distinct edge ; and 
these painted letters look well, in this way; and by taking 
advantage of printed letters, saves the skill and time nece* 
Bary to form them. 

To illustrate ; in the name given below, A may be gold 
foil ; W will be blue ; C, red ; H, black ; A, gold-foil ; S, 
blue ; E, red ; M, black ; and again D, gold-foil, which anj 
one cau see makes a more showy plate than if all were oi 
one foil, or one color. 



PAINTER'b j^jfiPJLdl fllfffn*. 



229 



Set your glass in the frame with putty, and put a thin 
coat of putty over the whole plate, as the plaster of Paris 
filling which is generally used soon eats out the japan or 
paint, and spoils the job. Persons with any ingenuity can 
?ery soon make a nice plate if they will pay attention to the 
tibove rules, as well as to pay five dollars for instructions, 
af5 a little practice must be had to become perfect, even if 
you do pay five dollars for an hour or two's telling and 
showing. Shellac varnish colored with lamp-black is good 
in place of the japan. See " Varnish — Transparent, for 
Wood/' 

ETCHING AND GRINDING UPON GLASS— For Signs, 

OR Side Lights. — Take the " Asphaltum Varnish," and with a 
small pencil lay out the name or design, not putting the varnish 
upon the letters, but around it, leaving the space which the le^ 
ters of the sign are to occupy, free and clear, as seen in the fol- 
lowing door plate, represented in the wood cut, and by the way, 
a veiy nice style of letter for that purpose also, we think : 



A1.CHASE,M.D 



*^ 



V 



The varuish is to cover the black surface in the sign or name, 
r^e white line around the outside represents a border which 
Improves the appearance of the plate; when the varnish is dry 
have some melted bees-wax and as it begins to cool, with a 
knife take some of it up and scrape it off upon the edge of the 
glass, being etched, so as to form a wall to hold the acid upon 
the glass while etching ; now lay the glass flat and pour a little 
flouric acid on to the name, letter, or design thus prepared, and 
let it remain on for one hour, not allowing the glass to be touched 
or moved for that time ; then pour off the acid into your bottle, 
and it can be used again. The asphalt prevents the acid from 
eating or etching only the letter, and the wax wall prevents th« 
acid from flowing off and being wasted. When you pour ott 
the acid wash the glass with a little water, scrape off the wax, 
and remove the asphalt with a little turpentine, and all is done. 

The above directions are for plain glass ; but if you desire, 
you can gild the letter which is etched (eat out,) or you can 
gild all except the letter, if desired, as described in the recipe 
for " Door Plates," or you can grind the surface of the glass 



280 DR. OBABE'8 RECIPES. 

as described under the head of " Glass-grinding for SlgBd^ 
Shades/' &c. This applies equally well to ** flashed/' oi 
what is called *^ staiued glass/' worked in the same way a« 
above, putting the design or letters upon the stained side^ 
which eats away the color and leaves the design clean and 
white ; or you can etch only a part of the way through tht 
Btain, which shows up the letter or flower lighter in coloi 
than the rest of the glass, which makes it look very beauti- 
ful for side-lights in halls, lamps, druggists' windows, &c. 

There are two kinds of colored glass — one is called " Pot 
metal,'' the other *' Flashed." The pot-metal glass is made 
by mixing the stain or coloring with the melted glass, while 
making, and consequently is alike all the way through. — 
The gtained glass is made by applying the color to one side 
of the glass after it is made, then applying sufficient heat 
to allow it to take hold of the glass only — the color is all on 
one side , this is the kind desired. 

If it is desired to etch upon druggists' or other jars, it 
can be done by preparing the name to be put on, with the 
yarnish and wax ; then have a lead box without top or bot- 
tom ; in shape on the lower edga to fit the shape of the jar, 
and press this down upon the wax to make it tight; then 
pour your acid into the box which keeps it in its place the 
same as the wax does on a flat surface. Ornaments or 
flourishes can be put on as well as letters. 

The old plan was to cover the whole surface with wax, 
then remove it from the letter, which was very slow and 
troublesome, and if a bit of wax remained upon the bottle, 
the acid could not cut where the wax remained, then to 
hold the glass over the fumes of the acid, instead of put- 
ting the acid upon the glass. 

2. Glass-Grinding for Sings^ Shades, &c.— After 
you have etched a name or other design upon uncolored 
^lass, and wish to have it show off to a better advantage by 
permitting the light to pass only through the letters, you 
can d') so by : 

Tah'Dg a i^iece of flat brass sufficiently large not to dip i^to 
Vhe letters, but pass over them when gliding upon the smlact^ of 
the ghiss; then with flour of emery, and keeping it wet, you ^an 
^rind the whole surlace, very quickly, to hjok like the'^gronjid 
glass globes, ot\en seen upon lamps, except the letter whic> ia 
eaten below the general surface. 



PAINT£B*8 DEPARTMENT. 231 

"Wlioie fights of glass can be ground in this way instead 
h{ frosting, or the frosting can be done here in place of the 
grinding, if preferred. 

3. Fluoric Acid, To Make for Etching Pukposes.— You 
can make yoiu own fluoric (sometimes called hydro-fluoric) acid, 
by getting the flaor or Derbyshire spar, pulverizing it and put- 
ting all of it into sulphuric acid which the acid will cut or dis- 
fcolve. 

Druggists throagh the country do not keep this acid gen- 
erally, but they can get it in the principal cities and furnish 
it for about seventy-five cents per ounce, and that ounce will 
do at least fifty dollars worth of work. It is put up in 
gutta percha-bottles, of lead-bottles, and must be kept in 
them when not in use, having corks of the same material. 
Glass, of course, will not hold it, as it dissolves the glass, 
otherwise it would not etcn upon it. 

PORCELAIN FINISH— ^'ERY Hard and White, for Par- 
lors, — To prepare the wood for the finish, if it bo pine, give one 
or two coats of the ^' Varnish~Ti ansparent for Wood," which pre- 
vents the pitch from oozing out Ci^asing the finish to turn yellow ; 
next, give the room, at least, four ^oats of pure zinc, which may 
be ground in only suflicient oil to enable it to grind properly, 
then mix to a proper consistence with turpentine or naptha. 
Give each coat time to dry. When it is dry and hard, sand- 
paper it to a perfectly smooth siirface when it is ready to 
receive the finish, w^hich eK)nsists of two coats of French zinc 
ground in, and thirmed with Demar-vurnish, until it works prop- 
erly under the brush. 

Mr. Miles, of this city, one of our c^cientific painters, has 
be(m sufficiently kind to furnish me this recipe prepared ex- 
pressly for this work, therefore, the mosc implicit confidence 
may be placed in it, yet any one can judge for themselves, 
from the nature of the articles used, that it must be white 
and hard. He goes on to say that if the French-zinc in 
\rarnish cannot be procured, the varnish may be whitened 
with zinc ground in oil as a very good substitute, being care- 
ful not to use too much, in which case it will diminish ihi 
gloss, and be more liable to tiirn yellow. A little turpen- 
tine or naptha may be added, if too thick to work well, but 
in no instance should oil be used to thin the paitit. 

This finish, if properly applied, is very beautiful, and al- 
though purely white, may be kept clean more easily than 
other kinds of painting by simply using a dusting brush ; or 



232 liji. chase's recipes 

if soiled, a sponge wet in cold soft water without Boa^, it 
the better way. 

N. B. — Not a particle of white-lead should be usedwhero 
this finish is to be applied, either in the priming, or any sub- 
sequent coats, or a brush used that has been in leaa without 
being thoroughly cleansed, as a yellow hue will soon present 
't^^elf, which is caused by a chemical change taking placo 
i^tween the lead and zinc 

PAINTERS' ECONOMY IN MAKING COLOH.^. -Prus- 
sian Blue. — 1st. Take nitric acid, any quantity, and as much 
u*on shavings from the lathe as the acid will dissolvK.^; heat the 
ii"on as hot as can be handled with the hand ; then udd it to tiie 
acid in small quantities as long as the acid will dissolve it, tlien 
slowly add double the quantity of soft water that there w^as of 
acid, and put in iron again as long as the acid wdll dissolve it 
2nd. Take Prussiate of potash, dissolve it in hot w^ater to make 
a strong solution, and make sufficient of it with the first to give 
the depth of tint desired, and the blue is made. Or: 

2. Another Method. — A very passable Prussian-blue is made 
by taking sulphate of iron (copperas) and Prusisiate of potash, 
equa.'' parts of each, and dissolving each separately in water, 
then mixing the two waters. 

3. Chrome Yellow. — 1st. Take sugar of lead and Paris 
white, of each 5 lbs.; dissolve them in hot w^ater. 2nd. Take 
bi-chromate of potash 6| ozs., and dissolve it in hot w^ater also, 
each article to be dissolved separately, then mix all together, put- 
ting in the bi-chromate last. Let stand 24 hours. 

4. Chrome Green. — Take Paris- w^hite 6^ lbs.; sugar of lead, 
and blue vitriol, of each 3i lbs.; alum lOJ ozs.; best soft Prus- 
sian blue and chrome yellow, of each 3^ lbs. Mix thoroughly 
while in fine pow^der, and add w^ater 1 gal., stmmg well and let 
stand 3 or 4 hours. 

5. Green, Durable and Cheap. — Take spruce yellow and 
color it with a solution of chrome yellow and Prussian-biue, 
until you give it the shade you wish. 

6. Paris Green. — Take unslacked lime of the best quality, 
slack it with hot water ; then take the finest part of the powdei 
and add alum w^ater, as strong as can be made, sufficient to form 
a thick paste, then color it with bi-chromate of potash and sul- 
phate of copper, until the coloi* suits your fancy. N. B.— The 
sulphate of copper gives the c<^lor a blue tinge — the bi-chromate 
ot potash a yellow^ Observe this and you will never fail. 

7. Another Method. — Blue vitriol 5 lbs.; >iiiirar of lead (4 
lbs.; arsenic 2^ lbs.; bi-clnomate of potash \i ozs.; mix them 
thoroughly in fine powder, and add water S pu., mixing well 
again and let stand 3 or 4 hours. 



blacksmiths' department 288 

S iTEA BKOWN.—lst. Take sulphate of copper, any quantity 
Aud dissolve it in hot water. 2nd. Take prussiate of potash, dijs- 
solve it in hot water to make a strong solution ; mix of the two 
B<ilutions, as in the blue, and the color is made. 

9. BosE PiNK.^-Brazil wood 1 lb., and boil it for 3 hours, 
having 1 gal. of water at the end ; then strain it and boil alum 1 
lb. in the same water until dissolved ; when sufficieutly cool 
to admit the hand, add muriate of tin f oz. Now have Paris- 
white 12^ lbs., moisten up to a salvy consistence, and when the 
first is cool stir them thoroughly together. Let stand 24 homu 

When any of the above mixtures have stood as mentioned^ 
in their respective recipes, all that is necessary is to drain 
off the water by placing the preparations into muslin bags 
for that purpose, and then exposing the mixture to the air, 
to dry for use. 

Glass, stone, or wood vessels only should be used, as the 
acids soon work upon iron, tin, copper, &c., giving you a tinge 
not desired in the color, and always observe that if water is 
to be mixed with strong acids, it must be added slowly, es- 
pecially if in Hght vials, or you will break the vessel bj 
means of the great heat which is set free by the combina- 
tion Painters can use their own judgment about making 
these colors ; but if they do not do it for profit there will be 
pleasure in testing them, evcL in vials-full only, as the chem- 
ical action is just as fine in small as in large quantities. 



BLACKSMITHS' DEPARTMENT. 

FILES AND RASP8~To Re-cut by a Chemical PEOCEaL 
dissolve saleratus 4 ozs., to water 1 qt., suflScient to cover the 
files, and boil them in it for half an hour ; then take out, wash 
and dry them ; now stand them in ajar, filling it up with rain- 
water and sulphuric acid, in the proportion of water 1 qt., to 
acid 4 ozs. 

If the files are coarse, they will need to remain in about 
twelve hours ; but for fine files, six to eiglit hours will be 
all-sufficient. When you take them out, wash them clean, 
dry quickly, and put a little sweet oil upon them, to prevent 
rust. 

This plan is applicable to blacksmiths, gun-smiths, tin- 
ners, copper-emiths, machinists, &e., &c. Copper and tin 



234 DR. chase's recipes. 

workers will only require a short time to take the articles 
out of their files, as the soft metals with which they become 
filled, are soon dissolved, leaving the files about as good aa 
new. For blacksmiths and saw-mill men, it will require the 
full time. 

They may be re-cut two or three times, making in all 
more service than it took to wear out the file at first. 

The preparation can be kept and used as long as you see 
action take place upon putting the files into it. Keep it 
covered when not in use. 

If persons, when filing, would lift up the file, in carrying 
back, there would be no necessity of a re-cutting, but in 
drawing it back they soon turn a wire-edge, which the acid 
removes. It also thins the tooth. Many persons have 
doubted this fact ; but I know that the common three-square 
file, (used for sharpening saws,) when worn out and thrown 
by, for a year or two, may be again used w4th nearly the 
Bame advantage as a new one. The philosophy of it is this 
— the action of the atmosphere acts upon the same principle 
of the acid, corrodes (eats off) the surface, giving a-new, a 
square, cutting edge. Try it, all ye doubtful ; I have tried 
both, and know their value. Boiling in the saleratus- 
water removes grease, and allows the acid to act upon the 
ffteel. 

VARNISHES— To Prevent Rust on Iron or Steel.— Tal- 
low 2 ozs.; rosin 1 oz.; melt and strain while hot. 

Apply a light coat of this, and you can lay away any arti 
cles not in constant use, for any length of time, such as 
knives and forks, or mechanics' tools which are being laid 
by, or much exposed. But for axes or other new tools, 
which are exposed to the air before sold, you will find th# 
following varnish preferable : 

2. Tkansparent, for Tools, Plows, &c.— Best alcohol 1 
gal.; gum sandarach 2 lbs.; gum mastic \ lb. Place all in a tin 
can which admits of being corked ; cork it tight, and shake it 
frequently, occasionally placing the can in hot water. Whei 
dissolved, it is ready to use. 

This makes a very nice varnish for new tools whicb art 
exposed to dampness ; the air, even, will soon (more or less) 
tarnish new work. 

8. SKEK-No-FiJiTHBR, FOB LftON OB Steel.— Take best c^^fal 



BLACSMITHS' DEPARTMENT. 235 

varnish, and add sufficient olive oil to make it feel a little 
frreasy ; then add nearly as much spirits of turpentine as there 
IS of varnish, and you will probably seek -no farther. 

4. Transparent Blue, for Steel Plows.— Take Demar 
varnish ^ gal.; finely ground Prussian-blue i oz ; mix thor 
oughly. 

For ground steel-plows, or other ground steel, one or two 
eoats of this will be found sufficient to give a nice blue ap- 
pearance, iike highly-tempered steel ; some may wish a little 
more blue ; if so, add the Prussian-blue to your liking. 
Copal varnish is not so transparent as the Demar, but if you 
will have a checip varnish, use No. 4. 

6. Black, Having a Polish, for Iron— Pulverized gum 
asphaltum 2 lbs. ; gum benz(nn ^ lb. ; spirits of turpentine 1 gal. 
o make quick, kcq) in a w^arm place and shake often ; shade to 
«uit with finely ground ivory black. 

Apply with a brush. And it ought to be used on iron 
exposed to the weather as well as on inside work desiring 
a nice appearance or polish. Or : 

7. Varnish for Iron. — Asphaltum 8 lbs. ; melt it in an iron 
kettle, slowly adding boiled linseed-oil 5 gals. ; litharge 1 lb. ; and 
sulphate of zinc i lb. ; continuing to boil for 3 hours ; then add 
dark gum amber 1^ lbs., and continue to boil 2 hours longer 
When cool reduce to a proper consistence, to apply with a brush, 
^ith spirits of turpentine. 

8. I WISH here, also, to state a fact which will benefit 
fchoso wishing to secure vines or limbs of trees to the side 
of a white house, with nails, and do not wish to see a streak 
of rust down the white paint, as follows : 

Make a hole, ^n wiiich to start the nail, putting a little strip 
of zinc into tl*e hole, and drive the nail in contact with the 
ainc. 

The electrical action of the two metals, in contact, pre* 
Fent rust, proven by ever eight years trial. 

WELDING— Cast Sthfl Without Borax.— Copperas 2 
ozs. ; saltpetre 1 oz. ; common salt 6 ozs. ; black oxyde of man- 
ganese 1 oz. ; Prussiate of potash 1 oz. ; all pulverized and mix- 
ed with nice W' elding sand 3 lbs., and use it the same as you 
fvould sand. 

Higher tempered steel can be used with this better than 
writh borax, as it welds at a lower heat — such as pitchfork 
dnes, toe-corks, &c. The pieces should be held together 
while heating. I have found some blacksmiths using it 



286 DR. chase's recipm. 

without the manganese ; but from what I know of the puri* 
fying properties of that article upon iron, I am sure it must 
be preferable with it, as that is the principal purifyer in tha 
next recipe. 

POOR IRON, — To Improve. — Black oxide of manganese 1 
part ; copperas and common salt 4 parts each ; dissolve in soft 
water and boil until dry ; when cool pulverize and mix quite 
freely with nice welding sand. 

When you have poor iron which you cannot afford t> 
throw away, heat it and roll it in this mixture, working for 
a time, re-heating, &c., will soon free it from all impurities, 
which is the cause of its rottenness. By this process you 
can make good horse-nails, even out of only common iron. 

WRITING UPON Iron or Steel, Silatsr or Gold, not 
TO Cost the Tenth Part op a Cekt per Letter. — Muri- 
atic acid 1 oz. ; nitric acid i oz. Mix, when it is ready for use. 

Directions — Cover the place you wish to mark, or write 
upon, with melted bees-wax ; when cold, write the name 
plain with a file point or an instrument made for the pur- 
pose, carrying it through the wax and cleaning the wax all 
out of the letter ; then apply the mixed acids with a feather, 
carefully filling each letter; let it remain from one to ten 
minutes, according to the appearance desired ; then put on 
some water, which dilutes the acids and stops the process. 
Either of the acids, alone, would cut iron or steel, but n 
requires the mixture to take hold of gold or silver. Ai'tci 
you wash off the acids it is best to apply a little oil 

MILL-PICKS,— To Temper.— To 6 qts. of soft water, put iB 
pulverized corrosive sublimate 1 oz., and 2 bands of common 
salt ; when dissolved it is ready for use. Tbe first gives tough- 
ness to the steel, whilst tlie latter gives tbe bardness. I bav^ 
found those who think it better to add sal-ammoniac, pulverized, 
2 ozs., to the above. 

D1RE.CTIONNS. — Heat the picks to only a cherry red and 
plunge them in and do not draw any temper. In working 
mill-picks, be very careful not to over-heat thsm, but work 
them at as low a heat as possible. The reason why so many 
fail in making good picks, is that they don't work them a* 
as low heat as they should. With care upon that point 
and the above fluid, no trouble will be experienced, evc» 
on the best diamond burrs. Be sure to keep the pr^para- 



BLACKSMITUS' DEPARTMENT. 2S7 

tion covered when not in use, as it is poison. Pigs or dogs 
miglit drink of it, if left uncovered. This is the mixture 
which has gained me the name of having the best prepara- 
ration in use for mill-picks, and the certificates on this sub- 
ject, but as I have some others which are very highly spo- 
ken of, I give you a few others. 

2. An English Miller, after buying my book, gave me 
the following recipe, for which he paid ten dollars. He 
bad used it all his life, or from the time he began business 
for himself, (about thirty years,) and ho would use no 
othcf. 

Salt i tea-cup ; saltpetre i oz. ; alum, pulverized, 1 tea-spoon ; 
soft water 1 gal. ; never heating over a cherry red, nor drawing 
Any te^flper. 

3. Salt petre, sal-ammoniac, and alum, of each 2 ozs. ; salt 
H lbs. ; water 3 gals. ; and draw no temper. 

There must be something in this last, as the next one I 
obtained at least five hundred miles from where I did this, 
and both from men who knew their value, and yet they re- 
semble each other near enough to be called '' The twins." 

4. Mill-Picks and Saw Gummers, to Temper. — Saltpetre 
and alum, each 2 ozs. ; sal-ammoniac i oz. ; salt li lbs. ; soft 
water 3 gals. Heat to a cherry-red and plunge them in, and 
draw no temper. 

The steel must never be heat above a cherry-red, and in 
working and drawing the picks there ought to be quite an 
amount of light water-hammering, even after the steel is 
Quite cool. Once more and I am done : yet it may be pos- 
sjole that the last, in this case, may be the best; read it. 

.) Mill-Pick-Tempering as Done by Church, op Ann Ar- 
bor. Water 3 gals. ; salt 2 qts. ; sal-ammoniac and saltpetre, of 
each 2 ozs. ; ashes from white -ash bark 1 shovel, which causes 
the picks to scale clean and white as silver. 

I obtained this recipe of a blacksmith who paid young 
Mr. Church five dollars for it, he coming into the shop and 
showing him how to work the picks, as also the composi- 
tion — -his instructions were, not to hammer too cold, to avoid 
flaws ; not to heat too high, which opens the pores of the 
^teel, nor to heat more than one or two inches of tho pick 
when tempering The gentleman says, if care is taken in 
Wating and working, that no other tempering liquid will 



equal it, yet he spoiled the first batch by over heating, ev«B 
<\fter Mr. Church had taken all painn to show him. They 
(the Messrs. Church) have picks sent H) them, for temper- 
ing, from Illinois and even ^Visconsin 

BUTCHER-KNIVES— Spring-Temper and Beauti- 

FUL Edge. — In forging out the knifi? as you get it near 
to its proper thickness, be very careful <\ot to heat it too 
high, and to "water-hammer as for mill p*cks ; when about 
to temper, heat only to a cherry-red and hold it in such a 
way that you can hold it plumb as you pi-^^. it into the watei 
which prevents it from springing — put i' plumb into the 
water and it will come out straight. 

Take it from the vvater to the fire and p»«s it through the 
blaze imtil a little hot; then rub a candle over t upon both sides 
and back to the fire, passing it backward an^ forward, in the 
blaze, tm'ning it over often to keep the heat ev«*«i over the w^hole 
surface, until the tallow passes off as though It went into the 
steel ; then take out and rub the candle over i1 again (on both 
sides each time) and back to the fire, passing i as before, until 
it starts into a blaze, with a snap, being careful hat the heat i» 
even over the wiiole length and width of the toe-»<, then rub the 
tallow over i. again and back, for 3 times, quickly ^s it burns off; 
and lastly rub the tallow over it again and push ^ into the dust 
of the forge, letting it remain until cold. 

If these directions are followed with dextenty you will 
have the temper alike from edge to back ; a^d the edge 
will be the best you ever saw, as Davy Crockett used to say 
" It will jump higher, dive deeper,'^ shave mor< hogs, bend 
farther without breaking, and give better satisi^tion than 
all other knives put together. 

It works equally well on drawing-knives and pther thin 
tools; and for trap-springs which are to be s^%on dry 
ground; but if set in water, ''pop goes the we^eP^ the 
first time the trap is sprung ; but the following is *^^e plan 
for tempering springs for general trapping. 

2. TR\P springs—To temper.— For tempering o^^t steel 
trap springs, all that is necessary is to heat them in the (i^^^A; just 
that you may see it is read, then cool them in lukewarm watcf. 
This is a short recipe, but it makes long-lasting springs. 

The reason why darkness is required to temper sp*^\ngs 
is that a lower degree of heat can be seen in the night Oian 
by day-light ; and the low heat and warm water give thf 
desired temper. 



blacksmiths' department. 2B9 

SiLVER PLATING— For Carriage WoRK,~-First, let tlia 
\ irts which are to receive the plate be filed very smooth ; then 
apply over the surface the muriate of zinc, which is made by 
dissolving zinc in muriatic acid ; now hold this part over a dish 
containing hot soft-solder, (pewtei solder is probably the softest) 
and with a swab apply the solder to the part, to which it ad- 
heres; brush off all superfluous solder, so as to leave tlie surface 
smooth ; you will now take No. 2 fair, silver plate, of the right 
gize to cover the surface ot the part prepared with solder, and 
lay the plate upon it, and rub it down smooth with a cloth which 
is moistened with oil, then, with a soldering-iron, pass slowiy 
over all the surface of the plate, which melts the solder under- 
neath it, and causes the plate to adhere as firmly as the solder 
does to the iron ; then polish the surface, finishing with buck- 
Bkin. 

The soldering-irons must be tinned, and also kept very 
smooth, and used at about the same heat as for soldering 
tin. 

IRON — To Prevent Welding. — Where it is desired to weld 
two bars of iron together, for making axletrees or other purpo- 
ses, through which you wish to have a bolt-hole, without punch- 
ing out a piece of the iron, you will take a piece of wet paste- 
board, the width of the bar and the length you desire not to 
weld, and place it between the two pieces of iron, and hold them 
firmly upon the pasteboard while taking the heat, and the u'on 
will weld up to the pasteboard, but not w^here it is ; then open 
the hole, with swedge and punch, to the desired size. 

In this way blacksmitli's tongs may be relaid, without the 
trouble of cutting the joints apart and making a new jaw. 
Simply fit two pieces of iron, the thickness you wish to add 
to the jaw of the tongs, have them of the right length and 
width also, then take them both between the jaws and heat 
them so you can pound them together, that they will fit 
closely for a weld ; now put a piece of the wet pasteboard 
between the pieces which you are to weld, having the 
handles of the tongs stand sufficiently apart that you may 
put on a link or ring to hold all firmly; then put into the 
fire, and take a good welding heat ; and yet they do not 
weld where the paper was between them ; if they stick a 
little at the end, just put them on the swedge and give them 
a little tap with the hammer, and they will fly right apart 
as nice as new. I am told that the dust from the ground 
or floor of the blacksmith-shop is as good as the pasteboard, 
yet I have not seen that tried ; but I know there is no mis- 



240 DR. CHArtF/S REOrPKS. 

take in the other; and yet I h aye ibiiud one blacksmith 
who declared he would not believe it could be done, even il 
he saw it. 

CAST-IRON — To Case-Harden. — Cast-iron may be case- 
hardened by heating to a red heat, and then rolling it in a com- 
position comiX)&ed of equal parts of Prussiate of potash, sai- 
nmmoniac, and saltpetre, all pulverized and thoroughly mixed ; 
Then plunged, while yet hot, into a bath containing 2 ozs. of the 
Prussiate, and 4 ozs. of the sal-ammoniac to each gal. of cold 
«'ater. — Scientific Ai^tisan, 

2. Cast-Iron — The Hardest, To Soften for Drilling.— 
Heat to a cherry red, having it lie level in the fire, then with a 
pair of cold tongs put on a piece of brimstone, a little less in 
6:.ze tlian you wish the hole to be wiien drilled, and it softens en- 
tirely through the piece ; let it lie in the fire until a little cool, 
wlien it is ready to drill. 

Sleigh-shoes have been drilled, by this plan, in five min- 
utes, after a man had spent half a day in drilling one- 
fourth of an inch into it. It is applicable to any articlo 
which can be heat without injury, 

WROUGHT -IRON-^To Case - Harden.— To case-harden 
wrought-iron, take the Prussiate of potash, finely pulverized, 
and roll the article in it, if its shape admits of it, if not, sprinkle 
the powder upon it freely, while the iron is hot. i 

This is applicable to iron-axletrees, by heating the axle- 
ti'ee and rolling the bottom of it in the powder, spread out 
fur that purpose, turning it up quickly and pouring cold 
water upon it, getting it into the tub of cold water as quick 
as possible. They will wear for years, without showing 
wear. 

2. Welding a Small Piece of Iron Upon a Large 
One, with Only a Light Heat. — It is often desirable 
to weld a small bit of iron upon a large bar, when the large 
piece must be heated equally hot as the small one. Tb 
save this : 

Take borax 1 lb.; red oxide of iron 1 to 2 ozs.; melt them to- 
gether in a crucible ; and when cold, pulverize it and keep the 
powder dry for use. 

When you want to perform the operation, just bring the 
large piece to a white heat, having a good welding heat up- 
on the small slip ] take the large one from the fire, and 
Bprinkle some of the powder upon the place, and bring the 



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241 



other upon it, applying the hammer smartly, and the weld 
will be as good as could bo made with the greater heat 
without the powder. 

BRONZING— For Iron or Wood.— First, make a black 
paint ; then put in a little chrome-yellow, only sufficient to give 
It a dark-green shade ; apply a coat of this to the article to bo 
bronjiad ; when dry, give it a coat of varnish ; and when the 
varnish is a little dry, dust on bronze by dipping a piece of vel- 
vet into the bronze and shaking it upon the varnish ; then give 
it another coat of varnish, and when dry, all is complete. 

Cast-iron bells, which are now being extensively intro- 
duced to the farming community, will be much improved in 
their appearance by thu^- bronzing, and also protected from 
rust, without injury to itt sound. Iron fences around yards, 
porches, verandas, &c., wii^ be much improved by it. It 
may also be applied to wood, if desired. 

TRUSS SPRINGS. — Directions for Blacksmiths 
TO Make — Better than the Patent Trusses. — After 
having tried the various kinds of trusses, over two years, 
having to wear one upon each side, I gave them all up as 
worse than useless. 

I then went to a blacksmith and had springs made, bending 
them as represented in the cut. 




TRUSS SPRING. 

Then they were bent to suit the shape of the body, and to 
press upon the body only sufficient, after the pads are put on, to 
hold back that which would otherwise protrude. The pad upon 
the back end of the spring I make of sole-leather, covered with 
cotton or linen clotn, having stuffed in a little batting to make 
it rest as easy as possible. The front pad I make by having a 
piece of wood turned <he shape and size of a small hen's egg^ 
sawing it through the center lengthwise, putting two screws into 
it thi'ough the holes represented in the end of the spring for 
that purpose. The back pad is secured bv one screw only. The 
spring is oiled, then covered with sheep skin, to prevent rusting. 
Thea it is secured around the body with a leather strap and 



£42 I>R. chase's^ recites 

buckle, or wit)i a piece ot cloth sewed into a string of suitable 
width to sit easy where it bears upon the hip, in passing to tie 
upon the other end of the spring, just back of the front pad 
The bend which is given the spring, before it is bent to the shapa 
of the body, gives it room to rise when the leg is raised, without 
lifting the pad from its position, saving the necessity of another 
strap to pass around under the thigh, as with the patent truss, 
which is very annoying to the wearer. Make the springs ni 
spring-steel, about i or | of an inch in width, and about 1 16 in 
thickness, and of sufficient length to have a bearing just short 
©f the spine. 

I now speak from eight years personal experience, which 
ought to be a sufficient length of time for an experimeat to 
be well established. 



TINNER'S DEPARTMENT. 

BLACK VARNISH— For Coal Buckets.— Asphaltum 1 lb.'; 
lamp-black J lb. ; rosin i lb. ; spirits of turpentine 1 qt. 

Dissolve the asphaltum and rosin in the turpentine ; then 
rub up the lamp-black with linseed-oil, only sufficient to 
form a paste, and mix with the others. Apply with a brush. 

JAPAN FLOW FOR TIN— All Colors.— Gum sandarach 

1 lb. ; balsam of fir, balsam of tolu, and acetate of lead, of each 

2 ozs. ; linseed-oil i pt. ; spirits of turpentine 2 qts. 

Put all into a suitable kettle, except the turpentine, over 
a slow fire, at first, then raise to a higher heat until all are 
melted ; now take from the fire, and when a little cool, stir 
in the spirits of turpentine and strain through a fine cloth. 
This is transparent ; but by the following modifications any 
or all the various colors are made from it. 

2. Black. — Prussian blue i oz. ; asphaltum 2 ozs. ; spirits of 
turpentine ^ pt. 

Melt the asphaltum in the turpentine ; rub up the bluo 
with a little of it, mix well and strain ; then add the whole 
to one pint of the^irs^, above. 

8. Blue. — Indigo and Prussian blue, both finelv pulverized, 
of *each i oz. ; spirits of turpentine 1 pt. Mix well and strain. 

Add ot thifl to one pint of i^Q first until the color suits 



TINNER'S DEPARTMENT. 243 

I. Tt?^.— Take spirits of turpentine i pt. ; add ccchineal i 02. < 
M stand 15 hours, and strain. 

i^ dd of this to the Jirst to suit tlie fancy. 

5 Yellov/". — Take 1 oz. of pulverized root cf curcuma and 
stir of it into 1 pt. of tJie first^ until the color pleases you, Id 
stand a few hours and strain. 

6. Green. — Mix equal parts of the blue and yellow toget*.ep 
tiien mix with the first until it suits the fancy. 

7. Orange. — Mix a little of the red with more of the yellow 
and then with the Jird as heretofore, until pleased. 

8. Pink. — Mix a little of the blue to more in quantity of the 
red, and then with the first until suited. 

In this simple and philosophical way you get all the vari- 
ous colors. Apply with a brush. 

GOLD LACQUER FOR TIN.— Transparent, All Coir 
ORS. — Alcohol in a flask ^ pt. ; add gum shellac 1 oz. ; turmerio 
J oz. ; red-sanders i oz. Set the flask in a warm p^ace, shake 
frequently for 12 hours or more, then strain off the liquor, rinse 
the bottle and return it, corking tightly for use. 

When this varnish is used, it must be applied to the work 
freely and flowing, or, if the work admits ef it, it may b^ 
dipped into the varnish, and laid on the top of the stove ta 
dry, which it will do very quickly ; and they must not )6 
rubbed or brushed while drying ; or the article may be hot 
when applied. One or more coats may be laid on, as the 
eolor is required more or less light or deep. This is applied 
to lanterns, &c. If any of it should become thick from 
evaporation, at any time, thin it with alcohol. And by the 
following modifications, all the various colors are obtained. 

2. Rose Color. — Proceed as above, substituting i oz. of finely 
£^ound, best lake, in place of the turmeric. 

3. Blue. — The blue is made by substituting pulverized Prus 
6ian blue i oz. in place of the turmeric. 

4. Purple. — Add a little of the blue to the first, 

5. Green. — Add a little of the rose-color to the first. 

Here again philosophy gives a variety of shades with 
only a slight change of materials or combinations. 

LACQUER FOR BRASS.— Transparent.— Turmeric rooL 
ground fine, 1 oz.; best dragon's blood i dr.; put into alcohol i 
pt.; place in a moderate heat, shake well for several days. It 
must be strained through a linen cloth and put back into the 
bottle, and add powdered gum shellac 8 ozs.; then keep as be* 



244 



Da. OHAHES E£01PSS. 



fore iu a warm place lor several days, frequently shaken; tk«D 

again strained, bottled and corked tight. 

Lacquer is put upon metal for improving its appearance 
and preserving its polish. It is applied with a brush when 
the metal is warm, otherwise it will not spread evenly. 

IRON — To Tin fok Soldering on Other Purposes. — Take 
any quantity of muriatic acid and dissolve all the zinc in it thai 
it will cut ; then dilute it with one-fourth as mu(;h soft water a« 
of acid, and it Is ready for use. 

This rubbed upon iron, no matter how rusty, cleanses it 
and leaves some of the zinc upon the surface, so that soldci 
readily adheres to it, or copper as mentioned below for cop. 
pering iron or steel. 

2. Iron, Iron AYire, or Steel, to Copper the Subface. — 
Rain water 8 lbs.; su]i)hate of copper 1 lb. Dissolve. 

Have the article perfectly clean; then wash it with this 
eolution and it immediately exhibits a copper surface. 

Lettering on polished steel is done in this way; fiower^ 
ing or ornamenting can also be done in the same way 
Sometimes dilute muriatic acid is used to clean ihe surface ; 
the surface must be clean by liling, rubbing, or acid ; then 
cleaned by wiping off. 

COPPER— To Tin for Stew-Dishes or Other PuiiPOSES.— 
Wash the surface of the article to be tinned, with sulphuric 
acid ; and rub the surface well, so as to have it smooth and free 
of blackness caused by the acid ; then sprinkle calcined and 
finely pulverized sal-ammoniac upon the surface, holding it ovei 
a fire where it will become sutficiently hot to melt a bar of sol- 
der which is to be rubbed over the surface ; if a stew -dish puH 
the solder into it and swab it about when melted. 

You will wipe off any surplus solder, and also for the 
purpose of smoothing the surface, by means of a tow or coi* 
ton swab, tied or tacked to a rod. In this way any dish oi 
copper article may be nicely tinned. 

BOX-IMETAL — To Make for Machinery. — Copper 4 parts; 
lead 1 part — zinc is sometimes substituted for the lead — eithef 
makes a durable box for journals. 

Printer's worn out type, in place of the lead, makes an 
improvement. 

SOLDERS— For Brazing.— Copper 3 party ; zinc 3 parta 
or sheet brass 3 parts ; zinc 1 part. 

2. Solder for Lead.— Take tin 1 part ; lead 2 parts, 
t. ftoLDRB FOB Tim.— L*«d 10 parU ; tin 7 t**^*^ 



TINKERS DEPARTMENT 245 

4. SoLDEK FOR BRITANNIA. — Bismuth ^ of 0116 part ; tin 1 
^rt , lead 1 part. 

BRITANNIA— To Use Old, instead of Block Tin, in 8oi^ 
DEB. — Take old Britannia and melt it; and while hot sprinkle 
<iulpl«ur over it and stir for a short time. 

This burns out the other articles in it, and leaves the 
bl-^ck tin, vehich may now be used for making solder asgoo^ 
10 aew tin. 

TIN — To Pearl, or Crtstalize. — Sulphuric acid 4 ozs.; soft 
ftater 2 to 3 ozs., according to strength of acid.; salt 1 oz.; mix. 

Heat the tin quite hot over a stove or heater ; then with 
a sponge wet with the mixture, washing off directly with 
elean water. Dry the tin ; then varnish it with l)emar- 
?arnish. 

This brings out the crystalline nature of the tin. Used 
in making water-coolers, spit-toons, &c. 

2. Tinning Flux— Improved.— It has been customary for 
tinners to use the muriate of zinc only ; but if you take 1 lb. of 
muriatic acid and put in all the zinc it w411 cut; then put in 1 
oz. of sal-ammoniac, yya will have no more trouble with 
bid dirty or greasy seams. 

Sometimes I think it is still improved by adding to it an 
equal amount of soft water. 

8. Liquid Glue, for Labeling TIpon Tin. — Boiling 
water one quart ; borax, pulverized, two ounces ; put in the 
borax ; then add gum shellac four ounces, and boil until 
iifisolved. 

Labels put upon tin with common glue or common paste 
, will not stick long. But this preparation obviates the diffi- 
jculty entirely. 

SCOURING LIQUID— For Brass, Door-Knobs, &c.— Oil 

of vitrol 1 oz. ; sweet oil ^ gill ; pulverized rotton stone 1 gill ; 
rain-water 1^ pts. ; mix all, and shake as used. 

i -^PP^y with a rag, and polish with buck-skin or old wool- 
'en. This makes as good a preparation as can be purchased, 
and for less than half the money. It does not give a coat- 
ing, but is simply a scourer and polisher. The following 
gives it a silver coating : 

SILVERING POWDER— For Copper or worn 'Plated 
Goods. — Nitrate, of silver and common salt, of each 30 grs. ; 
cream of tartar ^i dra. ; pulverize finely, mix thoroughly and 
bctU« for use. 



240 DR. chase's recipes. 

When desired to re-silver a worn spoon or other article, 
first clean them with tlie '^ Scouring Liquid " ; then moisten 
a little of the powder and rub it on thoroughly with a piece 
of buck-skin. For Jewelry, see '^Jewelry Depaite>^nt.'' 

OIL CANS — Size op Sheet, for fitom 1 to 100 CiALLONS.— 



For 1 gallon, 7 by 20 inches 
8i " 10 by 28 " 

5 ** 12 by 40 " 

6 " 14 by 40 " 
10 " 20 by 42 " 
15 " 80 by 42 " 

This includes all the laps, seams, &c., which will be fouxiJ 
Bttfficiently correct for all practical purposes. 



25 gallons, 30 bj 56 inches, 
40 ** 80 bj 63 " 
50 " 40 by 70 " 
75 " 40 by 84 " 
100 " 40 by 98 " 



GUNSMITHING DEPARTMENT. 

GUN-BARREL8— Browntng Process— Spirits of m^^e 1 Ib.j 
alcohol 1 lb, ; corrosive sublimate 1 oz. ; mix in a bottle and 
keep corked for use. 

Directions. — Plug both e? Js of the baiTel, and let the 
plugs stick out three or four inches, to handle by, and ako 
to prevent the fluid from enl /riug the barrel, causmjs: it to 
rust; polish the barrel peri 3Ct]y ; then ruD it wei) wiib 
quick-lime by means of a cloth, which removes (ul or 
grease; now apply the brt ^uing fluid wich a clean whit^ 
cloth, apply one coat and sat in a warm, dai^k place, until a 
red rust is formed over the whole surface, which wiii rci 
quire, in warm weather, from ten to twelve hours, and in co!< 
weather, from fifteen to t7«^enty hours, or until the rust b* 
comes red ; then card it down with a gun-raaker's card ai 
rub oif with a clean clath ; repeat the process until thi 
r.olor suits, as each coat ;^ives a darker shad3. 

2. Quicker and le^s Laborious Process. — While iai 
Evansville, Ind., I sol^i one of my books to C. Keller, a 
man who carries on g insmithing, extensively. He irav« 
me the following, which ^e was using, and says it makes i 
dark brown, with but lit. ie labor compared with the fi/st. 

3oft water 1 qt, and dissc^ive in it blue vitriol 3 ozs. ; corroaiyi^ 



A 

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gunsmiths' department 247 

sublimate 1 oz. ; and add 1 oz. of spirits of nitre. Have the 
barrel bright and put on one coat of the mixture ; and in 1 hour 
after, put on another, and let the barrel stand 12 hours ; then oil 
it and rub it with a cloth, of course having the ends of the bar 
rel tightly plugged, as in the first case. 

But Mr. Sutherland, the gunsmith of this city, says the 
brown from this recipe will soon rub off; none being per- 
manent unless carded down properly, as directed with the 
first recipe, that mixture being also superior. 

8. Browning for Twist Barrels. — Take spirits of nitre J 
oz. ; tincture of steel f oz. ; (if the tincture of steel cannot be 
obtained, the unmedicated tincture of h-on may be used, but it 
is not so good) black brimstone J oz. ; blue vitriol i oz. ; corro- 
sive sublimate i oz. ; nitric acid 1 dr. or GO drops ; copperas J 
oz. ; mix with li pts. of rain water, keep corked, also, as the 
other, and the process of applying is also the same. 

You will understand this is not to make an imitation of 
twist barrels, but to be used upon the real twist barrels, 
which brings out the twist so as to show ; but if you use 
the first upon the real twist barrels^ it will make the whole 
fiurface brown like the common barrel. 

CASE-HARDENING— For Lock-work.— Take old boots 
and shoes and lay them on a fire, and burn them until charred ; 
now put them mto a clean kettle and pulverize them coarsely, 
while hot ; be careful not to get any wood coals mixed with 
tnem. 

Directions. — Take the pulverized leather and place in a 
jheet-iron box, placing the articles to be hardened in the 
centre of the box, or amongst the pulverized leather, and 
cover with a sheet-iron cover ; or make the box so as to 
«hut up; now blow up a fire of veri/ dry charcoal; the 
coarser the charcoal the better ; then open the fire and place 
the closed box in the centre, cover it up and let stand fi'om 
forty to sixty minutes, not blowing; but if the coals burn 
ofi and leave the box exposed, you will put on more ; at the 
expiration of the time, take the box and pour its contenia 
into clean, moderately cool or cold water — never use warm 
irater ; these articles will now be found very hard, and will 
easily break ; so you will draw the temper to suit. 

BROKEN SAWS— To Mend Permanently —Pure silver 19 
fvts ; pure copper 1 part ; pure brass 2 parts ; all are to be 
Kied into powder and iutimately mixed. If the saw is not re- 
cently broken, apply the tinning preparation of the next recipe. 



248 BR. chase's rectpep 

Place the saw level upon the anvil the broken edges ia 
close contact, and hold them so ; now put a small line of 
the niixture along the seam, covering it with a larger bulk 
of powdered charcoal; now, with a spirit-lamp and a jewel 
crs^ blow-pipe, hole? the coal-dust in place, and blow sufficient 
to melt the solder mixture ; then with a hammer set the joint 
smooth, if not already so, and file away any superfiuous 
fro.dar ; and you will b» surprised at its strength. The heat 
upon a saw does not injure its temper as it does other tools. 
from the fact that the temper is rolled in, in place of by 
heat and water. 

TINNING — Superior to the Old Pkocess. — Take first, the 
same as the old "way ; that is, muriatic acid 1 pt., and as muck 
pure block or sheet zinc as it will cut, in an open dish, a bowl, 
or something of that character, as much heat is set free and bot- 
tles are often broken by it ; now take sal-ammoniac 4 ozs.; pul- 
verize it and add to the other, and boil 10 minutes in a copper 
kettle — bear in mind, only copper is to be used to boil in. 

You will find this will cause the solder to flow right 
along without difficulty. Keep corked tight when not in 
ase. 

VARNISH AND POLISH FOR STOCKS— German.— Gum 
shellac 10 ozs.; gum sandarach 1 oz. ; Venice turpentine 1 
drachm ; alcohol 95 to 98 proof 1 gal.; shake the jug occasion- 
ally for a day or two, and it is ready for use. 

After using a few coats of this, you can have a German- 
polish, by simply leaving out 8 ozs. of the shellac ; and a 
coat or two of the polish makes an improvement on the 
varnish, and does not require the rubbing, that it would if 
the full amount of shellac was used, in the last coat or two. 
It is recommended also to put upon cuts, sores, &c., burw 
excepted. 



JEWELERS' DEPARTMENT. 

GALVANIZING — Without a Battery. — Dissolve cyanurel 
of potassium 1 oz., in pure rain or snow water 1 pt., to which 
add a 1 dr. bottle of the chloride of gold, and it is ready to use. 
Scour the article to be plated, from all dirt and grease, with 
vMting, chalk, or rotten etone, pulverized, and put in alcohol, 



JEWELERS PITPAKTMENT. 



249 



iptng a good brush— or the " Polishing Compound," No. 3 ; if 
(iiere are cracks, it may be necessary to put the article in a solu- 
tion of caustic potash — at all events, every particle of greast) and 
lirt must be removed; then suspend the article to be plated in 
\iie cyanuret of gold solution, with a small strip of zinc cuX 
vbout tiie width of a common knitting-needle, hooking the top 
•)ver a stick which will reacli across the top of the jar holding 
he solution. 

Every five to ten minutes, the article should be taken out 
md brushed over with the scouring preparation ; or on 
cmooth surfaces it may be rinsed off and wiped with a piece 
of cotton cloth, and return until the coating is sufficiently 
heavy to suit. 

When the plating fluid is not in use, bottle it^ keeping it 
corked, and it is always ready for use, bearing in mind that 
It is as poison as arsenic, and must be put high, out of the 
way of children, and labeled — Poison ^ although you will 
have no fears in using it ; yet accidents might arise, if iti 
nature were not known. The zinc strip, as far as it reaches 
into the fluid, will need to be rubbed occasionally, until it is 
bright. 

2. Galvanizing With a Shilling Battery. — I have 
found some persons who thought it much better to use a 
simple battery, made by taking a piece of copper rod about 
three-eighths of an inch in thickness, and about eighteen Oi 
twenty inches long, and bend it, as seen in the accompany- 
ing cut : 




SHILLING battery. 

The rod should be about 4 or 5 inches in the circle or bend, 
tben run parallel, having 5 strips of sheet zinc, an inch wide and 
6 to 8 inches long, bent in their centre around the copper, with 
a rivet throu£,h them, close to the rod, as shown above ; these 
strips of zinc are to be placed into tvmiblers, the rod resting on 
top of the tumblers, which are to be nearly tilled with rain wa» 
ter; then pour into each tumbler a little oil of vitriol, until you 
Bee that it begins to work a little on the zinc. 



256 DR. chase's REOIPiC.o. 

The article to be plated is to be suspended upon the stn] 
of zinc, as represented upon the long end of the rod, whicls 
is to be placed as before spoken of, in ajar containing the 
gold solution, instead of having it upon the stick spoken of 
when plating without the battery. And ail the operatioug 
are the same as before described. 

JEWELRY — Cleaning and Polishing Cojipound. — Aqxi^ 
ammonia 1 oz.; prepared chalk i oz.; mix, and keep cor'ied. 

To use, for rings, or other smooth-surfaced jewelry, wet 
a bit of cloth with the compound, after having skaken it, 
and rub the article thoroughly ; then polish by rubbing 
with a silk handkerchief or piece of soft buck-skin. For 
articles which are rough-surfaced, use a suitable brush. It 
is applicable for gold, silver, brass, britannia, plated goods, &o. 



FARRJERS' DEPARTMENT. 

CHOLIC — Cure for Horses or Persons. — Spirits of 
turpentine 3 ozs.; laudanum 1 oz.; mix, and give all for a 
dose, by putting it into a bottle with half pint of warm 
water, which prevents injury to the throat. If relief is not 
obtained in one hour, repeat the dose, adding half an ounce 
of the best powdered aloes, well dissolved together, and 
have no uneasiness about the result. 

Symptoms. — The horse often lies down, suddenly rising again, 
with a spring ; strikes his belly wit]i his hind feet, stamps with 
his fore feet, and refuses every kind of food, &c. I suppose 
there is no medicine in use, for cholic, either in man or hors(j, 
equal to tliis mixture. 

For persons, a dose would be from 1 to 2 tea-spoons — children 
or weak persons, less, according to the urgency of the symptoms, 
to be taken in warm water or warm tea. 

I have been familiar with it for about five years, and know 
that it has been successful in many cases — all where it has been 
used. Many think it the best cholic remedy in the world. 

2. Anotller.— Laudanum | oz.; sulphuric ether 1 oz. Mix, 
and for a horse, give all at a dose, in warm water as above. 
Dose for a person, as the first. 

A Mr. Thorpe, of whom I obtained this recipe, tells m^ 
he has cured cholic in horses in every case with th© 6rs 



FAREIESS* DEPARTMENT. 251 

dose, except one, and in that case by repeating the dose 
thirty minutes after the first. There is no question but 
what it is good, and some would prefer it to the turpentine 
.1 know it is valuable. 

BOTS — Sure Remedy — When a horse is attacked with 
bots, it may be known by the occasional nipping at their 
own sides, and by red pimples or projections on the inner 
gurface of the upper lip, which may be seen plainly bj 
turning up the lip. 

First, then, take new milk 2 qts.; molasses 1 qt.; and give thb 
borse the whole amount. Second, 15 minutes afterwards give 
veiy warm sage lea 2 qts. Lastly, 30 miuutes after the tea, you 
wih give of currier's oil i pt , (or enough to operate as physic.) 
Lard has been used, when the oil could not be obtained, with the 
Bamc success. 

The cure will be complete, as the milk and molasses cause 
the bots to let go their hold, the tea puckers them up, and 
the oil carries them entirely away. If you have any doubt, 
one trial will f^atisfy you perfectly. In places where the 
currier^s oil cannot be obtained, substitute the lard, adding 
turee or four ounces of salt with it; if no lard, dissolve a 
double handful of salt in warm water three pints, and give 
all. 

RINj^-BONE AND SPAVINS— To Cure.— Egyptiacum and 
wine vinegar, of each 2 ozs.; water of pure ammonia, spirits of 
turpentine, and oil of origanum, of each 1 oz.; euphorbium and 
cantharides, of each ^ oz.; glass made fine and sifted through 
gauze 1 dr.; put them in a bottle, and when used let them be 
well shaken. This is to be rubbed upon the bone enlargement 
with the hand or spatula, for half an hour each morning, for six 
or seven mornings in succession. Let the horse be so lied that 
he cannrt get his mouth to the place for 3 or 4 hours, otherwise 
he will blister his mouth and blemish the part. Then let him 
riu until the scab comes off of itself without scraping, which 
in^ares the roots of the hair. Then repeat as before, and follow 
11] ' lor 3 or 4 times blistering, and all bone enlargements will be 
te absorbed, if not of more than a year or two's standing. 

It is also good for callous sinews, and strains of long 
Branding, spavins, big-head, &e., but if there are ring-bones 
or spavins of so long standing that this does not cause their 
c ire, you will proceed as follows : 

2. Add to the above compound, corrosive sublimate in powder 
I oz.; oil of vitriol i oz.; and common salt i oz.; when it Ib again 



252 DR. CHASK'S RKCIPKS. 

ready for use, always shaking well as you use either preparation 
Now clip the hair and prick the bone or callous part aa 
full of holes as you can with a pegging-awl, which is just 
long enough to break through the callous part only Or a 
better way to break up this bony substance is to have a han- 
die like a pegging-awl handle, with three or four awls in it, 
then tap it in with a stick and give it a wrench at the^ same 
time, which does the hurting part with more speed. Thia 
done, bathe the part with vinegar, until the blood stops 
flowing ; then apply the double compound as at first, for four 
or five mornings only, repeating again if necessary; and 
ninety-nine out of every hundred ring-bones or spavins wiU 
be cured; and most of them with only the first preparation. 
The Egyptiacum is made as follows : 

3. Take verdigris and alum in powder, of each 1^- ozs.; blue 
ritriol, ptnvdr.red, i oz.; corrosive sublimate, in powder, \ oz.; 
rinegar 2^ ozs.; honey ^ lb.; boil over a slow fire until of a 
proper consistence. When used it must be stirred up well, as a 
sediment will deposit of some of the articles. 

If the liair does not come out again after using the last 
blister, use the ^^ Good Samaritan Linimenf ' freely^ on the 
part; but the first will never disturb the growth of hair. 
It is best always to commence this kind of treatment early 
in the season, so as to efiect a cure before cold weather 
#omes on. 



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4. O. B. Bangs' Cure for Ring-Bone and Spavin. — Take 
of cantharides pulverized ; British oil ; oils of origanum and am- 
ber; and spirits of turpentine, of each 1 oz.; olive oil i oz.; oil 
of vitriol 3 drs.; put all, except the vitriol, into alcohol, stir the 
mixture, then slowly add the vitriol and continue to stir unti] 
the mixture is complete, which is known by its ceasing to smoka 
Bottle for use. 

Directions. — Tie a piece of sponge upon a stick and rub 
t>>o preparation by this means, upon the spavin or ring-bone 
^ long as it is absorbed into the parts ; twenty-four hours 
after, grease well with lard ; and in twenty-four hours more, 
rash off" well with soap-suds. Mr. Bangs lives at Napoleon, 
Mich., and has sold books for me nearly two years. Be 
says one application will generally be sufficient for spavina, 
bat may need two; ring-bones always require two or thr<*« 
ap-^^oations, three or four days apart, which prevents tha 
losd of huir; if not put on oftener than once in three of 



FARRIERS' DEPARTMENT. 253 

fotii days, the hair not coining out at all. Said to cure 
wind-galls, splints, &c. He obtained five dollars for curing 
a neighbor's horse of ring-bone, with this preparation ; stop- 
ping all lameness, but not removing the lump. 

5. In very bad cases of long standing, he thinks it pre- 
ferable to first apply the following : 

Take alcohol 1 pt. ; sal ammoniac, corrosive sublimate, and 
oil of spike, of each 1 oz. ; mix. 

Apply, by washing off and using lard afterwards, as above 
directed, washing also forty-eight hours after ; and when 
dry, apply the first liniment once or «.wice, according to di- 
rections. The object of this last is to open the pores of the 
skin, and soften the lump. 

6. Ring-bone Remedy. — Pulverized cantharides, oils of spike, 
origanum, amber, cedar, Barbadoes tar, and British oil, of each 
2 ozs. ; oil of wormwood 1 oz. ; spirits of turpentine 4 ozs. ; 
common potash ^ oz. ; nitric acid 6 ozs. ; and oil of vitriol (sul- 
phuric acid) 4 ozs. ; lard 3 lbs. 

Directions. — Melt the lard and slowly add the acids, 
etir well and add the others, stirring until cold. Clip off 
the hair and apply by rubbing and heating in ; in 
about three days or when it is done running, wash off 
with suds and apply again. In old cases it may take three 
or four weeks, but in recent cases two or three applications 
have cured. It has cured long standing cases. 

7. Rawson's Ring-bone and Spavtn Cure. —Venice turpen- 
tine and Spanish-flies, of each 2 ozs. ; euphorbium and aqua 
ammonia, of each 1 oz. ; red precipitate i oz. ; corrosive subli- 
mate i oz. ; lard li lbs. Pulverize all and put into the lard 
simmer slowly over coals, not scorch or burn, and pour off free 
of sediment. 

Directions.— For ring-bones, cut off the hair and rub 
the ointment w«»ll into the lumps once in forty-eight hours. 
For spavins, oj.»ce in twenty-four hours for three mornings, 
has perfectly a<ired them. Wash well, each application, with 
euds, rubbinfi; over the place with a smooth stick to sqeez 
out a thick yellow matter. 

Mr. Rawison, of Rawsonville, Mich., has cured some ex- 
ceedingly t)ad cases of ring-bones, one as thick as a man' . 
arm ; and spavins as unpromising in size. If properly 
cooke4 it will foam like boiling su^ar. 



Af>4 DR. chase's recipes. 

8. Indian Method.— Bind a toad upon it ; ortwo,if oncdoet 
not cover it, and keep it on from 8 to 10 days. 

An Indian cured a liorse in this way, near St. Louis, foi 
wliich he coveted, and recieved a rifle. The cure proved 
permanent. 

9. Bone-Spayins—Fre^'Ch Paste — 1300 Recipe. — Corrosive 
sublimate, quicksilver, and iodine, of each 1 oz. ; with lard only 
sufficient to form a paste. 

Directions. — Ptub the quicksilver and iodine together, 
then adding the sublimate and finally the lard, rubbing 
tnoroughly. 

Shave off the hair the size of the bone enlargement ; 
then grease all around it, but not where the hair is shaved 
off; this prevents the action of the medicine, only upon the 
spavin ; now rub in as much of the paste as will lie on a 
three cent piece only, each morning for four mornings only ; 
in from seven to eight days the whole spavin will come out ; 
then wash out the wound with suds, soaking well, for an 
hour or two, which removes the poi.sonous effects of the 
nedicine and facilitates the healing, which will be done by 
ny of the healing salves ; but I would prefer the green 
ointment to asay other in this case. 

Mr. Andrews, late of Detroit, who during his life, knew 
a good horse, and also desired to know how to take good 
care of them, did not hesitate to pay three hundred dollars 
for this recipe after seeing what it would do ; he removed 
a spavin from a mare's leg with it, and she afterwards won 
him more than the expense. 

10. Bone-Spavins — Norwegian Cure. — S. B. Mar- 
shall, the Champion Horse-Shoer, and Farrier, of White 
Pigeon, Mich., obtained this plan of an old Norwegian Far- 
rier, and also his plan of curing poll-evil, which see, and 
assures me that he has been very successful with them. I 
obtained them of him for the purpose of publication, and 
sincerely think I can recommend them to all who need 
them : 

Take dog's grease | pt.; best oil of origanum 1^ ozs ; pnWer 
ized cantliarides ^ oz. Mix, and apply each morniHg, for three 
mornings; heatinp: it in with a hot iron each time; th<^n skip 3 
mornings, and api^.y again, as before, until it has been applied 9 
times ; after which wait about 10 days, and if it is not aU gv^na, 
go oyer again in the same way 



FAKKUaEB' DEPABTMENT. 255 

He says it does net remove the hair, but that it cures tho 
largest and worst cases. He gives a test for p^ood oil of 
origanum, saying that much of it is reduced with turpen- 
tine ; and if so reduced, that it will spread on the skiu, like 
turpentine ; but if good, that it does not spread on the skin, 
but stands, like other oil, where a drop is put on. I am 
not certain about the genuineness of this test ; yet I iind 
quite a difference in the spreading of the oils; for that 
which is known to contain turpentine spreads fast and 
freely; whilst that which is believed to be pure, spreads 
very slowly, yet does finally spread. The pure is of a dark 
wme color, whilst the poor is of a lighter shade, and some 
what cloudy. 

11. SrAviN Liniment.— Oils of spike, origanum, cedar, Brit^ 
ish and spirits of turpentine, of each 1 oz. ; Spanish-flies, pul» 
verized i oz. 

Apply once in six to nine days only— removes the lump 
of spavins, splints, curbs, &c., if of recent occurrence ; and 
tne man of whom I obtained it, says he has scattered poll- 
evils before breaking out, with cedar oil, alone. 

12. Another. — Alcohol and spirits of turpentine, of each J pt. ; 
gum camphor, laudanum, and oil of cedar, of each 1 oz. ; oila 
of hemlock and rhodium and balsam of lir, of each i oz. ; iodine 
1 dr. ; mix. 

Apply night and morning, first washing clean and rub- 
bing dry with a sponge ; then rub the liniment into the 
spavin with the hand. It causes a gummy substance to 
ooze out, without injury to the hair — ^has cured ring-bones, 
also removing the lumps in recent cases. It cured the 
lameness in a case of three years standing. 

13 l:r'>i:!srT and Spavin Liniment. — Take a large mouthed 
i>ctiie and put invo it «il of origanum 6 ozs. ; gum camphor 2 
ozs. ; mercu»i*ial ointment 2 ozs. ; iodine ointment 1 oz. ; melt by 
putting the bottle ixito a kettle of hot water. 

Apply it to bone-spavins or splints twice daily, for four 
or five days. The lameness will trouble you no more. I 
have had men cure their horses with this liniment and re- 
mark that this recipe alone was worth more than the price 
of the book. 

14. Bog-Spavin and Wind-Gall Ointment, also good fob 
Curbs, Splints, Ring-bones, and Bonb-Spavin.— Take pulver- 
laed cantharides 1 oz. ; mercurial ointment 2 ozs. : tincture of 



256 DR. ohase's recipes. 

iodine 1| ozs. ; spirits of turpentine 2 ozs. ; corrosive siiblimaU) 
H drs. ; lard 1 lb. ♦ 

Mix well, and when desired to apply, first cut off the 
hair, wash well and anoint, rubbing it in with the hand 
or glove, if preferred. Two days after, grease the part with 
lard, and in two days more, wash off and apply the oint- 
ment again. Repeat the process every week, as long aa 
necessary. 

SWEENY — LiNTMENT. — ^Alcohol and spirits of turpentine, of 
each 8 ozs. ; camphor gum, pulverized cantharides, and capsi 
cum, of each 1 oz. ; oil of spike 3 ozs. Mx. 

Perhaps the best plan is to tincture the capsicum first 
and use the tincture instead of the powder, by which means 
you are free of sediment ; bathe this liniment in with a hot 
iron. The first case has yet to be found where it has noc 
cured this disease when faithfully followed. 

2. Another. — Sal-ammoniac 2 ozs. ; corrosive sublimate 1 oz. ; 
alcohol 1 qt. ; water 1 qt., pulverize and mix. 

This last has cured many casqs of sweeny, and also kid- 
ney complaints, known by a weakness in the back, of horses 
or cattle. Bathe the loins with it ; and give one to two 
table-spoons at a dose, daily. 

rOLL-EYIL AKD VISTULA— Positive Cuhe.— Common 
potash i oz. ; extract of belladona i dr. ; gum arable i oz. Dis- 
solve the gum in as little water as practicable ; then having pul- 
verized the potash, unless it is moist, mix the gum water with it 
and it will soon dissolve ; then mix in the extract and it is ready 
to use ; and it can be used without the belladona, but it is more 
painful without it, and does not have quite as good an effect. 

Directions. — The best plan to get this into the pipes is 
by means of a small syringe, after having cleansea the soro 
with soap-suds ; repeat once in two days, until all the cal- 
lous pipes and hard fibrous base around the poll-evil or fis- 
tula, is completely destroyed. Mr. Curtis, a merchant of 
Wheaton, 111., cured a poil-evil with this preparation, by 
only a single application, as the mare estrayed and was not 
found for two months — then completely sound ; but it wilJ 
generally require two or three applications. 

This will destroy corns and warts, by putting a little of 
it upon the wart or corn, letting it remain from five to t^n 
minutes, then wash ofi. and apply oil or vinegar, not squeez- 
ing them out, but letting nature remove them. 



fAivRlERS' DEPARTIVIENT. 257 

% Potash, :o JMake. — It rou cannot buy the potash, called 
hr in the iai^t recipe, you Jan make it by leaclilag best wood 
ftfeiies and boiling down the lye to what is called black salts, and 
continuing the heat in a thick kettle until they are melted; the 
oeat burn^ out the black impurities and leaves a whitish 'gra/ 
lubstance, called potash. 

This potash, pulverized and put into all the rat holes 
ibout the cellars, causes them to leave in double quick time, 
us mentioned in the '* Kat Exterminator/' The black salts 
will do about as well for rats, but m not quite &o strong. 
They get their feet into it, which causes a biting worse than 
their own, and they leave without further ceremony. 

Potash making in timbered lands is carried on very ex- 
tensively ; using the thick, heavy potash-kettle to boil and 
melt in ; then dipping it out i^lo three and five pail iron- 
kettles to cool, 

8. Poll-Evil and Fistula— Korwegiai^ Cure.— Cover the 
head and neck with two or three blankets; have a pan or kettle 
of the best warm cider vinegar; holaing it under the blankets; 
then steam the parts by putting hot sitones, brick, or iron, into 
the "vinegar, and continue the operation until the horse sweat 
freely; doing this 3 mornings and skippiag 6^ until 9 steaming 
have been accomplished. 

Mr. Marshall says, the pipes, by this time, will seem to 
have raised up and become loose, except the lower end, 
which holds upoo the bone or tendons, like a sucker's 
Giouth ; the apparent rising being caused by the going down 
of the swelling in the jmrts ; now tie a skein oi silk around 
the pipes and pull them out , washing the parts with weak 
copperas water until the sore heals up and ali is well. He 
told me that he cured, in this way, a horse which had inter- 
fered until a pipe had formed at the place of interfercRce, 
upon the leg, that when drawn out was as long as his linger. 
See the '^ Norwegian Cure for Bone-Spavin.'' 

4 Another. — Rock salt and blue vitriol, of each 1 oz., top- 
iw^ras ^ oz. ; pulverize all finely and mix well. 

Fill a goose-qulU with the powder and push it to the hot 
tom of the pipe, having a stick in the top of the quill, so 
tliat you can pusli the powder out of the quill, leaving it 
at the bottom of the pipe ; repeat again in about four days, 
and in two or tliree dnys from that time you can take hold 
af the pipe and remove it, without trouble. 
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PR. CHASE S RECIPES 



6. Poll-Eyil, to Scatter.— Take a quantity of mandraks 
''oot, mash, and boil it ; strain and boil down until rather thick 5 
then form an ointment by simmering it with sufficient lard for 
that purpose. 

Anoint the swelling once a day, for several days, unii) 
well. It has cured them after they were broken out, bj 
putting it into the pipes a few times, also anointing around 
the sore. 

6. Another. — Poll-evils and Fistulas have been cured by 
pushing a piece of lunar caustic into the pipe, then filliug the 
hole with currier's oil. Or : 

7. Another. — Corrosive subli ^ate the size of a common beaa^ 
pulverized and wrapped in tissue paper, and pressed to the bot- 
tom of the pipes, leaving it in eight days, then take out, and 
applying the blue ointment, (kept by druggists,) has cured them. 
Or: 

8. Another.— Arsenic, the size of a pea, treated in the same 
way, has cured the same disease. But if the Norwegian plan 
will work as recommended, it is certainly the best ot all. 

9. Another. — Oil of vitriol put into the pipes has cured many 

poll-evils. 

I found one man, also, who had cured poll-evil by placing 
barrel of water about fifteen feet high, on a platform, upon 
two trees — administering a shower bath daily upon the sore ; 
drawing the water by a faucet, through a dinner horn placed 
little end down ; tying the horse so as to keep him in posi- 
tion until the water ail runs out. Fifteen or twenty baths 
cured him, but it broke out again the next season, wlien a 
few more baths made a final cure. 

LOOSENESS OR SCOURING IN HORSES OR CATTLE— 
In Use over Seventy Years. — Tormentil root, powdered 
Dose for a horse or cow 1 to H oz. It may be stirred in 1 pt. of 
milk and given, or it may be steeped in li pts. of milk then given 
from 3 to 5 times daily until cured. 

It has proved valuable also for persons. Dose for a per- 
Bon would be from one-half to one tea-spoon steeped in milk j 
but if used for persons I should recommend that half atd 
much rhubarb be combined with it. 

An English gentleman from whom it was obtained, had 
been familiar with its use nearly eighty years, and never 
knew a failure, if taken in any kind of seasonable time. 
The tormentil, or septfoil, is an European plant, and very as- 
tringent. 



farriers' department 259 

5 Reef bones for Scours. — Burn the bones thoroughly and 
puJyerize finely ; then give 1 table-spoon in some dry feed, 3 
hnies daily, until cliecked. 

This preparation has thirty years experience of an Amer- 
ican gentleman, near Fentonville, Mich., to recommend it to 
general favor. 

3. Scours and Pin- Worms of Horses and Cattle. — White 
RSh bark burnt to ashes and made into rather {*• strong lye ; then 
mix I pt. of it with warm water 1 pt., and give all, 2 or 3 times 
daily. 

Whenever it becomes certain that a horse or cow is 
troubled with pin-worms*, by tlieir passing from the bowels, 
it is best to administer the above, as they are believed to be 
the cause, generally, of scours, and this remedy carries off 
tiie worms, thus curing the inflammation by removing the 
cause, 

TIOESE OINTMENT— De Gray or Sloan's.— Rosin 4 ozs.; 
bees- wax 4 ozs. ; lard 8 oss. ; honey 2 ozs. Melt these articles 
slowly, gently bringing to a boil ; and as it begins to boil, re- 
move from the fire and slowly add a little less than a pint of 
spirits of turpentine, stirring all the time this is being added, and 
stir until cool. 

This is an extraordinary ointment for bruises, in flesh or 
hoof, broken knees, galled backs, bites, cracked heels, &Co, 
ka. ; or when a horse is gelded, to heal and keep away flies. 
It is excellent to take fire out of burns or scalds in human 
flesli also. 

CONDITION POWDERS— Said to be St. John's.— Fenu 
greek, cream of tartar, gentian, sulphur, saltpetre rosin, black 
antimony, and ginger, equal quantities of each, say 1 oz. ; all to 
be fiueU^ pulverized ; cayenne, also tine, half the quantity of any 
one of the others, say i oz. Mix thoroughly. 

It is used in yellow water, hide-bound, coughs, colds, dis- 
tfjmper, and all other diseases where condition powders are 
generally administered. They carry off gross humors and 
purify the blood. Dose — In ordinary cases give two tea 
gpoons once a day, in feed. In extreme cases give it twic 
daily. If these do not give as good satisfaction as St. 
John^s or any other condition powder that costs more than 
double what it does to make this, then I will acknowledge 
that travel and study are of no account in obtaining infor* 
matioa. 



260 



DR. ciiahf/s rj:cip?:^ 



2. Cathartic Condition Powder. — Gamboge, alum, sah 
petre, rosin, copperas, ginger, aioes, gnm-myrrh, salts, and salt, 
and if the liorse is in a ver}- low condition, put in wormwood^ 
all the same quantities, viz., 1 oz. each. Dose — One tal> spoon 
in bnn twice daily ; not giving any other grain for a fe>^ days; 
then once a day with oats and other good feed. 

This last is more applicable for old worn-down horses 
which need cleaning out and starting again into new Ufa j 
and in such cases, just the thing to be desired. 

^ HORSE LINIMENTS— For Stiff-Neck from Poll- 
Evils. — Alcohol one pint; oil of cedar, origanum, and 
gum-camphor, of each two ounces; oil of amber one ounce; 
ase freely. 

2. English Stable Liniment— Very Strng.— Oil of spike 
aqua ammonia, and oH of turpentine, of each 2 ozs. ; sweet oil 
and oil of amber, of each 1\ ozs. ; oil of origanum 1 oz. Mix. 

Call this good for any thing, and always keep it in the 
stable as a strong liniment; the Englishman's favorite for 
poli-evils, ring-bones, and all old lameness, inflammations, 
&c. ; if much inflammation, however, it will fetch the hair, 
but not destroy it. 

3. Nerve and Bons Liniment. — Take beef's gall 1 qt. ; alco- 
hol 1 pt. ; volatile liniment 1 lb. ; spirits of turpentine 1 lb. ; oil 
of origanum 4 ozs. ; aqua ammonia 4 ozs. ; tincture Qf cayenne 
i pt. ; oil of amber 3 ozs. ; tincture of Spanish-flies 6 ozs. ; mix. 

Uses too well known to need description. Thia is more 
particularly applicable to horse flesh. 

4. LiNLtfENT FOR One- SHILLING A QuART. — Best vinegar 3 
qts. ; saltpetre, pulverized i lb. ; mix and set in a w»Jin place, 
until dissolved. 

It will be found valuable for spavins, sprains strains, 
bruises, old swellings, &c. 

BROKEN LIMBS— Treatment, Instead of Inhfmanly 
Shooting the Horse. — In the greater number of fractures it is 
only necessary to partially sling the horse by means of a broad 
piece of sail or other strong cloth, (as represented in the figure,) 
placed under the animal's belly, furnished with two breec>\ing9 i 
and two breast-girths, and by means of ropes and pulleya at- 
tached to a cross beam above, he is elevated or lowered, as may • 
be required. 

It would seldom be necessary to raise them entirely oif 
of their feet, as they will be more quiet, gcneraiUi whem 



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261 



allowed to touch the ground or floor. The head-stall should 
be padded, and ropes reaching each way to the stall, ai wcAl 
as forward. Many horses will plunge about for a time, but 
soon quiet down, with an occasional exception ; when they 
become quiet, set the bone, splint it well, padding the splinta 
with batting, securing carefully, then keep wet with cold 
water, as loug as the least inflammation is present, using 
light food, and a little water at a time, but may be given 
often. 

The use of the difierent buckles and straps will be easily 
naderstood. 




SUPPORTING APPARATUS IN LAMENESS OF HORSES. 

If he is very restive, other ropes can be attached to the 
eorner rings, which are there for that purpose, and will 
aiford much additional relief to the horse. 

I knew a horse's tkigh to crumble upon the race-course, 
without apparent cause, which lost him the stake he would 
have easily won; he was hauled miles upon a sled, slung, 
and cured by his humane owner. Then let every fair 
means be tried, before you consent to take the life, even of 
ft broken-legged horse 



262 DR. CHASF/S RECirKS. 

WOUND BALSAM— Foil House OH Human Fi.Rsn.— Gum 

benzoin, in powiler, G ozs.; balsa ni oT tolu, iu jiowdur, 3 oza.; 
gum slorax 2 ozs.; irankincensL', iu powder, 2 ozs.; gum myrrh, 
m powder, 2 ozs.; Socotoriue aloes, iu p/owder, 3 ozs.; alcohol 1 
gal. Mix them all together aud put them in a digester, and give 
them a gentle heat for three or tour days ; then strain. 

A better medicine can hardly be found in the Materia 
Med tea for healing fresh wounds in every part of the body^ 

1)articularly those on the tendons or joints. It is frequent- 
y given internally along with other articles, to great ad- 
vantage in all colds, flatulency, and in other debilities of 
the stomach and intestines. Every gentleman, or farmer, 
ought to keep this medicine ready prepared in his house, as 
a family medicine, for all cuts, or recent wounds, either 
among his cattle or any of his family. Thirty or forty 
drops, on a lump of sugar, may be taken at any time, for 
flatulency, or pain at the stomach ; and in old age, where 
nature requires stimulation. — Even/ Man Ills Own Farrier, 

GUEASE-IIEEL AND C0M3I0N SCRxVTCHES.— To Cure. 

— Lye made from wood ashes, and boil white-oak bark in it rni- 
til it is quite strong, both in lye and bark ooze ; when it is cold, 
H is ready for use. 

First wash off the horse's legs with dish-water or castile 
Boap; and when dry, apply the ooze with a swab upon a 
Btick which is sufficiently long to keep out of his reach, as 
lie will tear around like a wild horse, but you must wet all 
^ell once a day, until you see the places are drying up. 
The grease-heel may be known from the common scratcnea 
by the deep cracks, which do not appear in the common 
kind. Of course this will fetch ofi* the hair, but the disease i 
has been known to fetch off the hoof; then to bring on the ) 
hair again, use salve made by stewing sweet elder bark in \ 
old bacon ; then form the salve by adding a little rosin ac- 
cording to the amount of oil when stewed, about a quartet 
of a pound to each pound of oil. 

2. Anotiieii. — Verdigris i oz.; whisky 1 pt., are highly recom-p 
mended for grease heel 

3. Common Scuatciies. — Use sweet oil 6 oz.; borax 2 oz.; su^j 
of lead 2 oz.; mix, and apply twice daily, after washing otf withl 
dish-water, and giving time to allow the legs to dry. 

These plans have been used for years, by Geo. Clenam^ 
of Logansport, Indiana, and he assured me that the worsli 
oases will be cured, of either disease, iu a very few days 



JfARRIERS' DEPARTMENT. 

4. Another.— Copperas and diamber-lje are knowiD to ba 
l^ood for common scratches, applied, as the last, after washing 
with dish-water and drying. This last can be tried first, as it is 
easily obtained, and if it does not succeed you will not fail with 
the other. 

SADDLE AKD HARNESS GALLS— Bruises, Abrasions, 
&c.— Remedy.— While lead and linseed oil mixed as for paint, i» 
almost invaluable in abrasions, or galls from the saddle or col- 
lar, or from any otJier cause, it will speedily aid the part in heal- 
big. 

Applied with a brush to tho leg of a horse, the outer 
coating of hair and skin of which was torn off, caused it to 
hea] and kave no scar. It is good for scratclies and all 
fiores upon horses, or other animals, and equally good for 
men. It forms an air-tight coating, and soothes pain. Every 
farmer should keep a pot and brush ready iur use. White 
lead is the carbonate of the metal, and when pure is very 
white. That having a greyish tint is impure, being jrene- 
rally adulterated. For use as a paint, a lead color is p^o 
duced by adding lamp-black, and a drab or stone color, by 
adding burned umber 

In applying it for scratches, first wash them clean with 
soap and water, then apply. Some persons prefer lamp oil. 
If that is used, you will mix both together until the oil ^ 
sumesalight straw color. When the horse comes in a| 
night, his legs should be washed perfectly clean and rubbed 
perfectly dry. Then apply the mixture, rubbing it well tf 
the skin. Two or three applications are sufficient to effect 

a perfect cure, no matter how bad the case may be. Cor, 

respondence of the Countrij Gentleman, 

To give confidence in this, I would say that a lady, at 
Lafayette, Ind., told me she cured herself of salt-rheum 
with white-lead and sweet oil only. 

2 Another.— Alcohol and extract of lead, of each 2 ozs : 
>ott water 4 ozs. ; spirits of sal-ammoniac 1 oz. ; white copperai 
i oz. Mix all and shake as used. ^^ 

^' Knowlson's Complete Farrier" speaks very highly of 
this last preparation, which can be tried, should the first 
above fail. 

3. Sores from Chafing of the Bits.— Chloroform and sm- 
phuric ether, equal parts of each. Keep closely corked. 

Sponee off the mouth with water every time the bits are 



264 DR. CHASERS BECIPBS. 

taken out ; then wet well with the mixture. It will also 
he found valuable to remove soreness from any cause, on 
man or horse. 

4. Another. — White aslies and spirits of tnr])entine, of each 
H table-spoous ; black pepper, ground, 1 table-spoon ; lard to 
make 1 pt. of all, mix well and anoint. 

HEAVPjS. — Great Relief— Heaves, the common nanitj 
for any diiliculty in the breathing of a horse, is susceptible 
0^ great alleviation by attention to the character and qnau 
tity of food to be eaten by the animal, as every oup 
knows. If a horse suifering from this disease, is allowed tc 
distend his stomach at his pleasure, with dry food entirely, 
and then to drink cold water, as much as he can hold, he )3 
nearly worthless. But if his food be moistened, and be la 
allowed to drink a moderate quantity only at a time, the 
disease is much less troublesome. 

A still farther alleviation ma}' be obtained from the use of bal- 
sam of tir and balsam of copaiba 4 ozs. each ; and mix with 
Ciilcined magnesia sufficiently thick to make it bito balls; give 
a middling sized ball, night and moruhig for a week or 10 daya 
This gives good satisfaction, and is extensively sold by Eberbach 
& Co., druggists of this city. 

2. Another. — An old Farrier assures me that lobelia 
one tea-spoon, once a day, in his feed, for a week, and then 
once a week ; that you can hardly tell whether a horse ever 
had the heaves or not. 

3. Another. — H. Sisson, another Farrier, gives me a 
cure which somewhat resembles the ball first given under 
this head, and thus each one supports the other. 

He takes calcined magnesia, balsam of fir, and balsam of 
copaiba, of each 1 oz. ; s])irits of turpentine 2 ozs. ; and puts 
them all into 1 pt. of best cider vinegar, and gives for a dose 1 
table-spoon in his feed, once a day, for a week ; then every other 
day for 2 or 3 months. 

The horsA will cough more at first, but lOoser and looser 
until cured Wet his hay with brine, and als*« wet his 
feed. 

4. Another, — ^Iv Bangs, hiirhly recommends the following : 
Lobelia, wild turnip, elecainjiane and skunk cabbage, equal 
parts of each. Make into balls of common size, and give one 
for a dose, or make a tmctuie, by putting 4 ozs. of the mixture 
into 2 qts. of spirits; and after a week put 2 tabie-spocns iplo 
their feed, once a daj fui % month or two- 

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farriers' department. 265 

5. Another.— Oyster shells 1 pock ; burn into lime and pul- 
verize; mix a siEglc baDcUul of it with i gill cf alcohol, then 
itiix it with the oats each morning until all g'iven. 

This for bellows-heaves has done very much good. Horse- 
radish grated and put in with the feed has benefited. Cab- 
bage, as common feed, is good to relieve, or any juicy food, 
like pumpkins, &c., &c., will be found to relieve very much. 
Farmers who have their horses always at home, can keep 
them comfortable with some of the foregoing directions ; 
but broken-winded horses might as well be knocked in the 
head as to attempt to travel with them, expecting any satisfao- 
tion to horse or driver. 

6. Another. — A correspondent of the Country Gentle- 
man says that ^' heaves may be greatly alleviated by feed- 
ing raw fat pork. 

"Commence with a piece of pork, say a cubic inch, chopped 
very fine, and mixed with the wetted grain or cut feed, twice a 
day for two or three days. Then from day to day increase the 
quantity and cut less tine, until there is given with each feed 
such a slice as usually by a farmer's W'ife is cut tor frying — nearly 
as large as your hand, cut into tifieen or twenty pieces. 

'' Continue this for two weeks, and the horse is capable of 
any ordinary work with^^ut distress, and without showing the 
heaves, I have experience and observation for the past ten 
years as proof of the above.' ^ — [J., of Burlington^ Vt. 

DISTEMPER— To Distinguish and Cure.— If it 
is thought that a horse has the distemper, and you do not 
feel certain, wet up bran with rather strong weak lye — if 
not too strong they will eat it greedily; if they have the 
distemper, a free discharge from the nostrils and a conse- 
quent cure will be the result, if continued a few days ; but 
il ouly a cold, with swellings of the glands, no change will 
be discovered. 

SHOEING HOUSES— For Winter Travel.— N. P. 

V^^illis, of the Home Journal^ in one of his recent Idlewild 
letters, says: 

" You have discovered, of course, that you cannot have unin- 
terrupted winter riding with a horse shod in the ordinary way. 
The sharp points of the frozen mud will w^ound the frog of the 
foot ; and with snow on the ground, the hollow hoof soon col- 
lects a hard ball, which makes the footing very insecure. But 



266 DR. ohASE'S RECIPE8. 

these evils are remedied by a piece of sole leather nailed on mm* 
der the shoe— a protection to the hoof which makes a surprlshi^ 
difference in the confidence and sure-fookjdness of the animars 
«tep." 

FOUlSfDER— rvEMEi>Y.~Draw about 1 gal. of blood from the 
neck; then drench the K^rse with linseed-nil 1 qt.; now rub th4 
fore legs, long and well, w^ith water as hot as can be borne with- 
out scalding. 

This remedy entirely cured a horse which had been 
foundered on wlieat, tv/o days before ike treatment began. 

PHYSIC— Ball fou Houses.— Barbadoes aloes from 4 to 5, 
or G drs., (according to the size and strength of the horse); tar 
trate of potassia 1 dr.; ginger and castile soap, of each 2 drs.; oij 
of anise «or peppermint 20 drops ; pulverize, and make all intc 
one ball with thick gum solution. 

Before giving a horse pbysic, he should be prepared for 
it by feeding scalded bran, in place of oxits, for two days at 
least, giving also water which has the chill taken off, and 
continue this feed and drink, during it«^ operation. If it 
should not operate in forty-eight hours, repeat half the dose. 

2. PrrYsic Fon Cattle. — For cattle, take half only of the 
dose, a})()ve, for a horse, and add to it glauber salts 8 ozs.; dis- 
solve all in gruel 1 qt., and give as a drench ; for cattle are not 
easily managed in giving balls, neither is their construction 
adap'ted to dry medicine. 

There is not the need of preparation for cattle, generally, 
as for horses, from the fact of their not being kept up to 
grain, if they are, however, let the same precautions be ob 
served as in '^Physic Ball for Horses/' 

HOOF- AIL IN 8IIEEP— Sure Remedy.— Muriatic acid and 
Sutter of antimony, of each 2 oz.; white vitriol, pulverized, 1 oz. 
Mix. 

Directions. — Lift the foot and drop a little of it upon i 
the bottom. It will need to be applied only once or twice i 
a week — as often only as they limp, which showjs that thej 
foot is becoming tender again. It kills the old hoof, and ai 
nev\ one soon takes its place. Have no fears about the re-- 
6ult ; apply the medicine as often as indicated, and all isi 
safe. 

It has proved valuable in growing off horse's boofs^ wheat 
8n'i2"i:ed. or contraction made it necessary. 

i^ii L WATER— For Horses and Cattle.— Alcohol ^ Mi^ 
spoon ; extract of lead 1 tea-spoon ; rain water i pt 



i-ARRIERS' DEPARTMENT. 267 

Wash the eye freely, two or three tiraes daily. But I 
prefer the ''Eye Water'^ as prepared for persons ; and allow 
me here to say that what is good for man, in the line of 
medicine, b good for a horse, by increasing the dose to cor 
respond. 

TAMING — Principles Applied to Wild and Vi- 
cious Horses. — I have thought, in closing up this Dd' 
partment, that I could not devote a page to a better pui 
pose than to the so-called secret of taming. For it is a 
isecret, but it lies in a diiferent point from what is generally) 
believed, which I will attempt to show. 

Several persons are advertising books for taming wild 
horses, and other persons are going about teaching the art 
to classes in private. Probably the pupils get their money's 
worth. But, why do so many fail ? The whole secret lies 
in this J that mam/ persons can never handle a horse, with all 
the instruction in the world — it is not in them. They cannot 
establish a sympathy between themselves and the horse, 
and if they become horse trainers, they have only mistaken 
their calling, and the money they laid out is perhaps aj! 
cheap a way as they could be taught their mistake. 

To be a successful horse trainer, he must have a sympch 
thy with the horse, and a personal power of control. This 
reminds us of an old gentleman's remarks on the subject 
of sweeny. He said : " There were a great many recipes 
of penetrating oils, applications, etc., but the great secret 
was in faith^^ without which no person will persevere a 
eufficient length of time with either of them. This holds 
good in all diseases, as well as in handling or taming a 
horse. 

The mystery or secret, then, is in knowing how, and hav- 
ing the stamina (power) to do it. 

As for recipes, they consist in using the horse-castor or 
wart, which grows upon the inside of the leg, grated fine, 
oil of cumin, and oil of rhodium, kept separate in air-tight 
bottles ; these all possess peculiar properties for attracting 
ajd subduing animals. 

•^ Hub a little oil cf cumin upon your hand, and approach 
the horse in the field, on the windward side, so that he caa 
STiieli the cumin. The horse will let you come up to bin 
without trouble. 



*ii<. ^ DH. CHASE S RECIPES 

*^ I\t;mediately rub your hand gently on the horse's nose, 
gettin,^ a little of the oil on it. You can then lead him 
any wLore. Give him a little of the castor on a piece of 
loaf-sugar, apple, or potato. 

*^ Put eight drops of the oil of rhodium into a lady's 
thimble. Take the thimble between the thumb and mid- 
die finger of your right hand, with the fore-finger stopping 
the mouth of tho thimble to prevent the oil from running 
out whilst you are opening the mouth of thp horse. 

^' As soon as you have opened the horse's mouth, tip the 
thimble over upon his tongue, and he is your servant. He 
will follow you like a pet dog. Very doubtful. — Author. 

" Ride feailCiSS and promptly, with your knee pressed to 
the side of the horse, and your toes turned in And heels out ; 
then you will aKyays be on the alert for a shy or sheer from 
the horse, and he can never throw you. 

" If you want lo teach him to lie down, stand on his nisjh 
or left side ; have a couple of leather straps, about six feet 
long ; string up hio left leg with one of them around his 
neck ; strap the other end of it over his shoukiers ; hold it 
in your hand, and wLt-ii you are ready, tell him to lie down, 
at the same time gently, flr'mly, and steadily pulling on the 
6t)ap, touching him li^kiiy with a switch. The horse will 
immediately lie down, ifo this a few times, an4 you can 
make him lie down without the straps. 

'^ He is now your pupil and friend. You can teach him 
anything, only be kind to )iim — be gentle. LoYe him and 
he will love you. Feed him before you do yourncU'. Slicl- 
tei him well, groom him yourself, keep him clean, and at 
night always give him a good bed.'' 

It will be perceived, by reference ^o vhe following 
item from BelFs Li/e, that tlie secret for taming horses, by 
which Mr. Rarey has made himself so rich and famous, 
instead of being a divination of his own, was prob^^bly ob- 
tained by him through some accidental contact with an old 
volume, which had long disappeared from observatio^i, and 
hardly held a place in public libraries : 

A correspondent sends us the following: ^' In the Gen- 
tleman's Farriery, by Bartlett, (sixth edition) published ia 
17G2, (one hundred years ago,) page 298, is the followio^: 
* The method proposed by Dr. I^racken i« to tie up ojje of 



CABINET makers' departme>.t. 369 

tlif fore feet close, and to fasten a cord or small rope about the 
other fetlock, bringing the end ot it over the horse's shoul- 
deis ; then Jet him be hit or kicked with your foot behind that 
knee, at the same tune pulling his nose down strongly to the 
manger You will bring him upon his knees, where he 
should be held till he is tired wdiich cannot be long, but if he 
does not lie down soon, let him be thrust sideways against his 
quarters, to throw him over: by forcing him down several 
times m this way, you may teach him to lie down, at the same 
words you first used for that purpose " You will see that Mr. 
luiiey's system is exactly the same. 

From the foregoing it will be seen that he obtained the 
knowledge, and naturally possessing the fivrmi^^s, fearless en- 
ercjy. and muscle sufficient to back the whole, he has become 
tlie horse tamer of the icorld. 

\Yithout all these qualifications no one need undertake the 
business, no matter how often he pays five dollars for recipes 
or instructions. 



CABI]\[ET MAMEM§' BEPARTMEIVT. 

POLISH— Foil New Furniture.— Alcohol 98 per cent. 1 
pt. ; gums copal and shellac, of each 1 oz. ; dragon's blood % 
oz. Mix and dissolve by setting in a warm place. 

Apply with a sponge (it is best in the sun or a warm room) 
about three coats, one directly alter the other as fast as dry, 
say fifteen to twenty minutes apart ; then have a small bunch 
of cotton batting tied up in a piece of woolen ; w^et this in al- 
cohol and rub over the surface well ; now go over the surface 
with a piece of tallow, then dust on rotten stone from a wool- 
en bag and rub it with, what is often called, the heel of the 
hand ; now^ wipe it off with cotton cloth, and the more you 
rub with this last cloth, the better will be the polish. 

Although this professes to be for new work, it does not 
hurt the looks of old, not the least bit ; try it all wiio want 
their furniture to show^agioss and answerm place of looking- 
glasses. 

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270 PR. chase's recipes. 

If soldiers will try it on their gun-stocks, they will find 
it just the thing desired. 

2. Polish for Rsyiyino Old Fuhniture, Equal to trs 
" Brother Jonathan." — Take alcohol 1^ ozs.; spirits of salts 
(muriatic acid) i oz. ; linseed-oil 8 ozs.; best vinegar ^ pt.; and 
butter of antimony 1^ ozs.; mix, putting in the vinegar last. 

It is an excellent reviver^ malnng furniture look n«arly 
equal to new, and really giving a polish to new work, alwaya 
fehaking it as used. But if you cannot get the butter of 
antimony, the following will be the next best thing : 

8. Polish for Rsmoying Stains, Spots, and Mildew, from 
Furniture.— Take of 98 per cent, alcohol i pt.; pulverized 
rosin and gum shellac, of each ^ oz. Let these cut in the alco- 
hol ; then add linseed-oil ^ pt.: shake well, and apply with a 
sponge, brush, or cotton flannel, or an old newspaper, rubbing it 
well after the application, which gives a nice polish. 

These are just the thing for new furniture when sold and 
about to be taken out of the shop ; removing the dust and 
giving the new appearance again. 

4. Jet, or Polish for Wood or Leather, Black, Red, oh 
Blue. — Alcohol (98 per cent.) 1 pt. ; sealing wax, the color de- 
sired, 3 sticks ; dissolve by heat, and have it warm when applied. 
L sponge is the best to apply it with. 

For black on leather it is best to apply copperas watei 
first, to save extra coats; and paint wood the color desired 
also, for the same reason. On smooth surfaces, use the tal- 
low and rotten stone as in the first polish. It may be ap- 
plied to carriage-bodies, cartridge-boxes, dashes, fancy-bas- 
kets, straw-bonnets, straw-hats, &c. 

FUENITUEE — Finishing with only Ont: Coat of Varniph. 
iqoT Using Glue, Paste, or Shellac— Take boiled linseed-oil 
and give the furniture a coat with a brush ; then immediately 
sprinkle dry whiting upon it and rub it in well with your hand, 
or a brush which is worn rather short and stiff, over all the sur- 
face — the whiting absorbs the oil ; and the pores of the wood 
are thus filled with a perfect coat of putty, which will last loi 
ftges ; and water will not spot it nor have any effect upon it. 

For mouldings and deep creases in turned work, you can 
mix them quite thick, and apply them together, with the 
old brush, but on smooth surfaces, the hand and dry whit- 
ing are best. If black walnut is the wood to be finished^ 
you will put a trifle of burned umber in the whiting, — if 
for cherry, a little Venetian-red ; beech or maple Wvll r* 



CABINET makers' DEPABTMENT, 271 

quire less red. Only sufficient is to be used, in either case, 
to make the whiting the color of the wood, being finished. 
Bedstead-posts, banisters, or standards for bedsteads and all 
other turned articles can have the finish put on in the lathe, 
ifl double quick time ; spreading a newspaper on the lathe 
to 8ave the scattering whiting, applying it with the hand or 
hands, having an old cloth to rub oif the loose whiting 
which does not enter the pores of the wood, — the same with 
smooth surfaces also. 

This preparation is cheap; and it is a wonder that furni- 
ture men have not thought of it before. Three coats of 
varnish without it is not as level as one with it. From the 
fact that some of the varnish enters the pores of the wood 
and does not dry smooth; but with the pores filled with thia 
preparation, of course, it must dry smooth and level, with- 
out rubbing down. 

STAINS— Mahogany on Walnut, Natural as Nature. — 
Apply aquafortis by means «f a rag tacked to a stick ; for if you 
use a brush it will very soon destroy it. Set the furniture in the 
hot sun to heat in the aquafortis, if no sun, heat it in by a stove 
or fire. 

It is better if heat in, but does quite well without heat- 
ing. Finish up in every other way as usual. 

This finish is applicable to fancy tables, stands, lounges, 
coffins, &c., and equally beautiful on knots and crotches, 
giving walnut the actual appearance of mahogany, and as 
it is appearances only that most people depend upon, why 
will not this do as well as to trasport timber from beyond 
the seas. 

2. RosE-wooD Stain, Very Bright Shade— Used Cold.— 
Take alcohol 1 gal.; camwood 2 ozs.; let them stand in a warm 
place 24 hours ; then add extract of. logwood 3 ozs.; aquafortis 
1 oz.; and when dissolved it is ready for use ; it makes a very 
bright ground, like the most beautiful rose- wood — one, two or 
mor^B coats, as you desire, over the ^vhole surface. 

This part makes the bright streaks or grains ; the dark 
enes is made by applying, in waves, the following : 

Take iron turnings or chippings, and put vinegar upon them ; 
let it stand a few hours and it is ready to apply over the other, 
by means of a comb made for graining ; or a com!) made from 
thinnish India-rubber ; the teeth should be rather good length ; 
eay halt an inch, and cut close together or further apart, as de- 
fied ; and with a litUe practice, excellent imitation will be madu 



272 DR. OHABE'8 RECIPBa. 

This, for chairs, looks very beautiful to appJj me darkej 
ing mixture by means of aflat, thin-haired, brasn, leavin^^ 
only a little of the red color in sight ; and if you want tc 
make the cringles, as sometimes seen in rose-wood, it ia 
done with a single tooth or pen, bearing on sometimes hard 
and then light, &o., &c. All can and must be got by prae 
tice. 

The above stain is very bright. If, however, you wish 
a lower shade, use the next recipe. 

3. RosE-wooD Stain — Light Shade. — Take equal parts of 
logwood and redwood chips, and boil well in just sufficient water 
to make a strong st&in; apply it to the furniture while hot, 1 oi 
2, or even 3 coats may be put on, one directly after the other, 
according to the depth of color desh-ed. 

For the dark lines, use the iron chippings as in the above 
recipe. Or, if a rose-pink is desired, use the following : 

4. EosE-PiNK, Stain and Yarnish, Also Used to Imitatb 
RosE-wooD. — Put an ounce of potash into a quart of water, with 
red Sanders H ozs.; extract the color from the wood and strain ; 
then add gum shellac i lbs.; dissolve it by a quick fire — used 
upon logwood Btain for rose-wood imitdiion. 

5. Black Walnut Stain. — Whenever persons arousing 
walnut which has sap-edges, or if two pieces are being glued 
together which are diflferent in shade, or when a poplai 
pannel, or other wood is desired to be used to imitate black 
walnut, you will find the following to give excellent satis- 
faction : 

Spirits of turpentine 1 gal.; pulverized gum asphaltum 2 lbs. 
Pat them into an iron kettle and place upon a stove, which 
prevents the possibility of fire getting at the turpentine; dissolve 
by heat, frequently stirring until dissolved. Put into a jug or 
can while hot. 

When desired to use any of it, pour out and reduce with 
turpentine to the right shade for the work being stained. 
With a little practice you can make any shade desired. It 
used with a brush over a red stain, as mentioned in tke rose* 
wood stain recipes, especially for chairs and bedsteads, it 
very nearly resembles that wood. Mixing a little varnish 
with the turpentine when reducing it, prevents it from spot- 
ting, and causes it to dry quicker. By rubbiug a little 
lamp-blaok with it you can make it a perfect black, >f de- 
aired. 



CABINET makers' DEPARTiMENT 273 

(). Ctterry Stain. — Take rain water 3 qts.; anotta 4 ozs.; boil 
111 a copper kettle until the anotta is dissolved ; then put in a 
piece of potash the size of a common walnut, and keep it on the 
fire about half an hour longer, and it is ready tor use. Bottle 
for keeping 

This makes poplar or other light-colored woods so near 
tlie color of cherry that it is hard to distinguish ; and even 
improves the appearance of light-colored cherry. 

VARNISHES— Black, with x\sphaltum.— Spirits of turpen 
tine 1 gal.; pulverized gum asphaltum 2^ lbs.; dissolve by heat, 
over a stove fire. 

It is applied to iron, frames of door plates, back-grounds 
in crystal painting, etching upon glass, and also for fence- 
wire, or screens which are to go into water above mills to 
turn leaves and drift-wood, &c. 

2. Patent Varnish, for Wood or Canvaps.— Take spirits 
of turpentine 1 gal.; asphaltum 2i lbs.; put them into an iron 
kettle which will fit upon a stove, and dissolve the gum by heat 
When dissolved and a little cool, add copal varnish 1 pt., and 
b(/iled linseed-oil i pt.; when cold it is ready for use. Perhaps a 
little lamp-black would make it a more perfect blacK. 

If done over a common fire, the turpentine will be very 
likely to take fire and be lost ; and, perhaps, ^^q the house 
or your clothes. 

This is valuable for wood, iron, or leather ; but for cloth, 
first make a sizing by boiling flax-seed one quart, in water 
one gallon ; applying of this for the first coat , the second 
coat of common thick black paint ; and lastly a coat of the 
varnish. Some think that sperm oil, the same quantity, 
makes a little better gloss. 

3. Varnish, Transparent, for Wood. — Best alcohol 1 gal.; 
nice gum shellac 2^- lbs. Place the jug or bottle in a situation 
to keep it just a little warm, and it will dissolve quicker than if 
hot, 01 left cold. 

This varnish is valuable for plows, or any other article 
where you wish to show the grain of the wood, and for pine, 
when you wish to finish up rooms with white, as the ^' Por- 
celain Finish f' a coat or two of it efiectually prevents the 
pitch Irom oozing out, which would stain the finish. 

If this stands in an open dish, it will become thick by 
evaporadon ; in such cases add a little more alcohol, and it 
is tis good as before. Some do use as much as three and a 
— HR. ciiasf/s recipes. 



274 DR. CHASES RECIPES. 

half pounds of shellac, but it is too thick to spread well ^ 
better apply two or more coats, if necessary. When a 
black varnish is wanted, you can rub lamp-black with this, 
for that purpose, if- preferred before the asphaltum, la/^ 
given. 



BARBERS' AND TOILET DEPARTMENT. 

HAIR DYE~In Two NmiBERS.—No. 1. Take gallic acid i 
oz.; alcohol 8 ozs. ; soft water 16 ozs.; put the acid in the alcohol, 
then add the water. 

No. 2. Take for No. 2, crystalized nitrate of silver 1 oz.; am- 
monia, strongest kind, 3 ozs. ; gum arable i oz. ; soft water (5 ozs. 
Observe, in making it, that the silver is to be put into the ammo- 
nia, and not corked until it is dissolved ; the gum is to be dis- 
solved in the water, then all mixed, and it is ready for use. 

Barbers will probably make this amount at a time, as it 
comes much cheaper than in small quantities ; but if fami- 
lies or others, for individual use, only wish a little, take 
drachms, instead of ounces, which you see will make only 
one-eighth of the amount. 

Directions for Applying. — First, wash the whiskers 
or hair with the ^' shampoo,^^ and rinse out well, rubbing 
with a towel until nearly dry ; then with a brush apply No. 
1, wetting completely, and use the dry towel again to re- 
move all superfluous water; then with another brush, 
(tooth-brushes are best.) wet every part with No. 2, and it 
becomes instantaneously black; as soon as it becomes diy, 
wash off with hard water, then with soap and water; apply 
a little oil, and all is complete. 

The advantages of this dye are, that if you get any stain 
upon the skin, wipe it off with a cloth at the time, and tho 
washing removes all appearances of stain ; and the whis- 
kers or hair never turn red, do not crock, and are a beauti 
ful black. 

However, cyanuret of potassium 1 dr., to 1 oz. of water, 
♦rill take off any stain upon the skin, arising from nitrate of 
silver ; but it is poison, and should not touch sore places 
nor be left where children may get at it. 



barbers' and toilet department. 275 

fersoTis whose hair ♦s prematurely gray, will find dye 
less trouble in using, than the restoratives; for when once 
applied^ nothing more needs being done for several weeks ;< 
whilst the restorati^^^^s are only slow dyes, and yet need 
several applications. But that all may have the chance of 
choosing for themse''^es, I give you some of the best resto- 
ratives in use. 

HAIR RESTOR A TIVES AND IN VIGOR ATORS.— Equal 
TO Wood's, for ^ 'f riflnig Cost. — Su^ar of lead, borax, and 
lac-sulphur, of ^pch 1 oz.; aqua ammonia | oz.; alcohol 1 gill. 
These articles t^ stand mixed for 14 hours ; then add bay rum 1 
gill ; fine table salt 1 table-spoon ; soft water 3 pts.; essence of 
bergamot 1 oz. 

This prep*) f-ation not only gives a beautiful gloss, but will 
cause hair tc grow upon bald heads arising from all common 
causes ; and turn gray hair to a dark color. 

Mannf^ of Application. — When the hair is thin or 
bald, m.^ke two applications daily, until this amount is used 
up, unless the hair has come out suifficiently to satisfy you 
before that time ] work it to the roots of the hair with a 
soft brush or the ends of the fingers, rubbing well each 
time. For gray hair one application daily is sufficient. It 
is harmless and will do all that is claimed for it, does not 
ooafe only a trifle in comparison to the advertised restora- 
tives of the day; and will be found as good or better than 
most of them. 

2 Invigorator.— Vinegar of cantharides 1 oz.; cologne-water 
1 oz ; and rose-water 1 oz. ; mixed and rubbed to the roots of 
the nair, until the scalp smarts, twice daily, has been very highly 
recommended for bald heads, or where the hair is falling ou't. 

If there is no fine hair on the scalp, no restorative, nor 
invigorator on earth can give a head of hair, See remarks 
after No. S. 

3. Another. — Lac-sulphur and sugar of lead, of each 1 dr. ; 
tannin and pulverized copperas, each 32 grs. ; rose-water 4 ozs. ; 
wetting the haii once a day for 10 or 12 days, then once or twic« 
a week will keep up the color. 

If it is only desired to change gray hair to a dark color 
the last will do it ) but where the hair is falling out or has 
already fallen, the first is required to stimulate the scalp to 
healthy action. 

L Another.— Lac -sulphur and sugar of lead, of each 1 oz.; 



276 DR. ohase's recipes. 

pulvtTized litharge, (called litlirage) 1^ ozs. ; rain water 1 qt ; 
applying 3 mornings and skipping 3, until 9 applications — givod 
a nice dark color. 

I obtained this of one of the Friends, at Richmond, Ind , 
and for turning white or gray hair, it is a good one. Th^ 
litharge sets the color, as the sulphate of iron does in tli^ 
next. There is but httle choice between them. 

5. Another. — Rain water 6 ozs. ; lac-sulphur i oz. ; sugar ot 
lead i oz. ; sulphate of iron (copperas,) i oz ; flavor with berg<*- 
ir.ot essence, if desired ; and apply to the hair daily ?antil sulH- 
ciently dark to please. 

All the foregoing restoratives will change, or color thi5 
gray or white hair black, or nearly so ; but let who will tel) 
you that his restorative will give your hair its original color^ 
just let that man go for all he is worth at the time; for as 
time advances his worth will be beautifully less. 

6. Hair Inyigorator. — A Wheeling barber makes UNe 
of the following mvigorator to stop hair from falling out, oi 
to cause it to grow in ; it is a good one, so ib the one follow- 
ing it : 

Take bay rum 1 pt. ; alcohol i pt. ; castor oil i oz. ; car]:>onate 
of ammonia i oz, ; tincture of cantharides I oz. Mix, and shake 
when used. Use it daily, until the end is attained. 

7. Another. — Carbonate of ammonia 1 oz. ; rubbed up in 1 
pt. of sweet oil. Apply daily until the hair stops falling out, or 
is sufficiently grown out. 

This last is spoken of very highly in England, as a pio- 
ducer of hair, " Where the hair ought to grow,^' and does 
not. 

8. Strong sage tea, as a daily wash is represented to stop 
hair from falling out j and what will stop it from falling, is 
an mvigorator and consequently good. 

There is not a liniment mentioned in this book, but wliich, 
if well rubbed upon the scalp daily for two or three months, 
will bring out a good head of hair ; when the scalp has be- 
come glossy and shining, however, and no fine hair growing, 
you may know that the hair follicle or root, is dead ; and 
nothing can give a head of hair in such cases, any more 
than grain can grow from ground which has had none scat- 
tered upon it. This condition may be known by the 9bip. 
ing or glistening appearance ol' the scalp 



BAllBERiS' AND TOILET DEPARTMENT. S/ 

All heads as well as bodies should be often washed witli 
Boap and clean water ; but if that is neglected too long, it 
becomes necessary to use something stronger to remove the 
grease and dandruff — then the following will be found just 
the thing to be desired. 

SHAJMPOOING MIXTURES— For Five Cents per Quart. 
—Purified carbonate of potash, commonly called, salts of tartar 
1 oz. ; rain water 1 qt. ; mix, and it is ready for use. 

Apply a few spoons of it to the head, rubbing and work- 
ing it thoroughly ; then rinse out with clean soft water, and 
dry the hair well with a coarse, dry towel, applying a little 
oil or pomatum to supply the natural oil which has been 
fiaponificd and washed out by the operation of the mixture. 
A barber will make at least five dollars out oi 'ais five cents 
tvorth of material. 

2. Another excellent shampoo is made by using aqua ammo- 
nia 3 ozs. ; salts of tartar ^ oz. ; alcohol ^ oz. ; and soft water 2^ 
pts. and flavoring with bergamot. In applying, rub the head 
until the lather goes down ; then wash out. 

The next recipe also, makes as good a shampoo mixture 
as I wish ; for it kills so many birds at one throw that I do 
nut wish to throw any other. 

RENOVATING MIXTURES— For Grease Spots, Sham- 
rooiNG, AND Killing Bed-Bugs. — Aqua ammonia 2 ozs. ; soft 
water 1 qt. ; saltpetre 1 tea-spoon ; variegated shaving soap 1 oz., 
or one 3 cent cake, finely shaved or scraped ; mix all, shake 
well, and it will be a little better to stand a f w hours or days 
bsfore using, w^hich gives the soap a chance to dissolve. 

Directions. — Pour upon the place a sufilcient amount 
CO well cover any grease or oil which may get spiiioc' or 
daubed upon coats, pants, carpets, &c., sponging and rub- 
bing well and applying again if necessary to saponify the 
grease in the garment ; then wash ofif with clear cold water. 
Don't squirm now, for these are not half it will do — 
some people fly entirely off the handle when a preparation 
is said to do many things — for my part, however, I alwaya 
admire an article in proportion to the labor which can be 
erformed by it or with it. This preparation will shampoo 
ike a charm ; raising the lather in proportion to the amount 
of grease and dandruff in the hair. It will remove paint, 
even from a board, I care not how long it has been applied, 
if oi? was used in the paint — and yet it does not injure the 



278 DR. chase's recipes. 

finest textures, for the simple reason tliat its affinity is foi 
grease or oil, changing them to soap, and thus loosening 
any substance with which they may be combined. 

If it is put upon a bed-bug he will never step afterwards ' 
and if put into their crevices, it destroys their e^g^ and 
thus drives them from the premises. 

A cloth wet with it will soon remove all the grease acd 
dirt from doors which are much opened by kitchen-handa. 

2. Eexovating Clotkks — Gentlemeis's Wear. — To warm 
soft water 4 gals., put in 1 beef's gall ; saleratus i lb. Dissolve. 

Lay the garment on a bench and scour every part 
thoroughly by dipping a stiff brush into the mixture ; spots 
of grease and the collar must be done more thorough, and 
longer continued than other parts, and rinse the garment 
in the mixture by raising up and down a few times, then 
the same way in a tub of soft cold water; press out the watci 
and hang up to dry; after which it needs brushing the waj 
of the nap and pressing well under a damp cloth. 

Beef's gall will set the color on silks, woolen, or cotton — 
one spoon to a gallon of water is sufficient for this purpose. 
Spotted bombazine or bombazette washed in this will alse 
look nearly equal to new. 

3. Faded and W<>bn Garments — To Renew the Color — 
To alcohol 1 qt., add extract of logwood ^ lb. ; loaf sugar 2 oz ; 
blue vitriol J oz, ; heat gently until ail are dissolved ; bottle foj 
use. 

Directions. — To one pint of boiling water put three or 
four tea-spoons of the mixture, and apply it to the garment 
with a clean brush ; wetting the fabric thoroughly ; let dry ; 
:hen suds out well and dry again to prevent crocking ; brush 
with the nap to give the polish. This may be applied to 
silks and woolen goods having colors ; but is most applicable 
to gentlemen^s apparel. 

COLOGNES—Imtsri^l.— Take oils of bergamot 1 oz. ; re- 
roli 1 dr. ; jessamine i oz. ; garden lavender 1 dr. ; cinnamon 5 
drops ; tincture of benzoin 1^ ozs. ; tincture of musk i oz. ; do 
odorized or cologne alcohol 2 qts. ; rose water 1 pt. Mix. 

Allow the preparation to sta.nd several days, shaking oc- 
casionally, before filtering for use or bottling. This is rather 
expensive, yet a very nice article. See '^ Rose- Water.'' 

2. CoLOGNH FOB Family Usk — Cheapeii Oils of roiiemary 



barbers' and toilet department. 279 

and lemon, each i oz. ; bergamot and lavender, each 1 dr. ; cin- 
namon 8 drops ; clove and rose, each 15 drops ; common alcohol 
2 qts. Mix, and shake 2 or 3 times daily for a week. 

Colognes need only be used in very small quantities } the 
game is true of highly flavored oils or pomades; as too 
much, even of a good thing, soon disgusts those whom they 
were intended to please. 

HAIR OILS — New York Barbers', Star.— Castor oil 6^ pls^ 
alcohol li pts.; oil of citronella ^ oz.; lavender J oz.; mixed and 
shaken when used, makes one of the finest oils for the hair ir 
use. 

I have been told that this amount of alcohol does not cut 
the oil. Of course, we know that ; that is, it does not be- 
come clear, neither do we want it to do so ; it combines with 
the oil, and destroys all the gumminess and flavor peculiar 
to castor oil, by which it becomes one of the best oils for 
the hair which can be applied. Gills, spoons, or any other 
measure will do as well, keeping the proportion of flavoring 
oils ; and if the citronella cannot be got, use some other oil 
in its place ; none are equal to it, however. 

2. Macassar, or Rose. — Olive oil 1 qt.; alcohol 2^ ozs.; rose 
oil ^ dr.; tie chipped-alkanet root 1 oz., into 2 or 3 little muslin 
bags ; let them lie in the oil until a beautiful red is manifested ; 
then hang them up to drain, for if you press them you get out a 
Bediment you do not wish in the oil. 

3. Fragrant, HoivfE-MADE.— Collect a quantity of the leaves 
of any of the flowers that have an agreeable fragrance ; or fra- 
grant leaves, as the rose-geranium, &c. ; card thin layers of cot- 
ton, and dip into the finest sweet oil; sprinkle a small quantity 
of salt on the flowers ; a layer of cotton and then a layer of 
flowers, until an earthen- ware vessel, or a wide-mouthed glass 
bottle is full. 

Tie, over it, a piece of a bladder ; then place the vessel in 
the heat of the sun ; and in fifteen days a fragrant oil may 
De squeezed out, resembling the leaf used. Or, an extract 
is made by putting alcohol upon the flowers or leaves, in 
about the same length of time. These are very suitable for 
the hair, but the oil is undoubtedly the best. 

4. Pomade — Ox Marrow. — One of the most beautiful 
pomades, both in color and action, is made as follows : 

Take beef's marrow 1 lb.; alkanet root, not chipped, 1 oz.; put 
them into a suitable vessel and stew them as you would render 
UUoTV ; strain through two or three thicknesses of nmslin, and 



4bi Dii. OiiA^E'd Kiliuiliii 

iQen aaa, oi casior on t ^o.; uay runi i gm ; nicn la^es awaj 
the peculiar jBreslmess of the marrow ; ihi^n use the extract oi 
the common rose- geranium to give it the flavor desired. 

Half as much suet as marrow, also makes a very nice 
article ; and ^nn be used where the marrow is not easily ob 
tamed. 

BALM OF A THOUSAND FLOWERS.— As stranre 
as it may seem, some of the most astonishingly named ard- 
'jles, are the most simple in their composition. Althou£;b 
thousands of dollars have been made out of the above 
named article, it is both cheap and simple : 

Deoderized alcohol 1 pt.; nice white-bar soap 4 ozs.; shave the 
soap when put in ; stand in a warm place until dissolved ; then 
add oil of citronella 1 dr.; and oils of neroli and rosemary, of 
each i dr. 

It is recommended as a general perfume ; but it is more 
particularly valuable to put a little of it into warm water, 
with which to cleanse the teeth. 

EAZOR STROP-PASTE— Take the very finest superfine 
flour of emery and moisten it with sweet oil ; or you may moist- 
en the surface of the strop with the oil, then dust the flour of 
emery upon it, which is perhaps the best way. 

Nothing else is needed. You must not take any of the 
coarse flours, nothing but the finest will do. It is often 
mixed with a little oil and much other stuff which is of no 
use, and put up in little boxes and sold at two shillings, not 
Having more than three cent's worth of emery. 



BAKERS' AND COOKING DEPARTMENT 

Remarks. — It may not be considered out of place to 
make a few remarks here, on the art, as also on the prmci 
pies, of cookerv. For nearly all will acknowledge cooking 
not only to be an art, but a science, as well. To know how 
to cook economically is an art. Making money is an art. 
Now is there not more money made and lost in the ki token 
than almost any where else ? Does not many a hard- work- 
ing man have his substance wasted in the kitchen ? Doca 



BAKERS^ AND COOKING DEPARTMENT, , 281 

not many a slnftless man have liis substance saved in the 
kitchen V A careless cook can waste as mucli as a man can 
earn, wiiich might as well be saved. It is not what we earn, i 
as much as what we save, that makes us well-olf. A long and 
happy life is the reward of obedience to nature's laws ; and 
to be independent of want, is not to want what Ave do not 
need. Pj'odigality and idleness constitute a crune against hu- 
manity. But frugality and industry, combined with moral 
virtue and intelligence, Vvdll insure individual happiness and 
national prosperity. Economy is an institute of nature and 
enforced by Bible'^])recept : '^Gather up the fragments, that 
nothing be lost." Saving is a more difficult art than earning ^ 
some people put dimes into pies and puddings, where others 
only put in cents ; the cent dishes are the most healthy. 

Almost any woman can cook well, if she liave aplenty with 
which to do it ; but the real science of cooking is to be abler' 
to cook a good meal, or dish, with but little out of which to 
make it. This is what our few recipes shall assist you m 
doing 

As to the principles of cooking, remember that water can. 
not be made more than boiling hot — no matter how mucli 
you hasten the fire, you cannot hasten the cooking, of meat 
potatoes, &c , oUe moment : a brisk boil is sufficient. When 
meat is to be boded for eating, put it into boiling water at the 
beginning, by which its iuices are preserved But if you 
wish to extract these juices for soup or broth, put the nieat- 
m small pieces, into cold water, and let it simmer slowly. 

The same principle holds good m baking, also. Make the 
oven the right heat, and give it time to bake through, is the, 
true plan , if you attempt to hurry it, you only hurn^ instead 
of cooking it done. 

If you attempt the boilir.sr to hnrry. the wood only is wasted * 

BVit, in attcmi)tin^^ ihe liaking lo ii'd.rry, the lood, as w eli, isn t fit to be tasted. 

CAKES—Federal Cake.— Flour 2J/| lbs.; pulverized white 
sugar 1;4 lbs. : fresh butter 10 ozs ; 5 eggs well beaten ; car- 
bonate 01 ammonia )g oz ; water i^ pt , or milk is best, if you 
have it 

Grind down the ammonia, and rub it with the sugar* 
Kub the butter into the flour; now make a bowl of "tlie 
iiour, (unless you choose to work it up m a dish,) and put 



282 DR. chase's recipes 

in the ^ggA milk, sugar, &c., and mix well, and roll out to 
about a quarter of an inch in thickness ] then cut out with 
a round cutter, and place on tins so they touch each other , 
and instead of rising up thicker, in baking, they fill up tne 
space between, and make a square-looking cake, all attached 
together. While they are yet warm, drench over witb 
white coarsely-pulverized sugar. If they are to be kept in 
a show-case, by bakers, you can have a board as large as the 
tin on which you bake them, and lay a dozen or more tins- 
ful on top of each other, as you sprinkle on the sugar. 1 
cannot see why they are called ''Federal,'^ for really, the) 
are good enough for any ^' Whig/^ 

Ammonia should be kept in a wide-mouthed bottle, tight 
iy corked, as it is a very volatile salt. It is known by va- 
rious names, as ^' volatile salts,^^ ^^ sal volatile,'^ '^ hartshorn/ 
" hartshorn-shavings,'^ &c., &c. It is used for smelling-bot 
ties, fainting, as also in baking. 

2. Rouon-AKD-READT Cake. — Batter or lard 1 lb.; molasses ■< 
qt.; soda 1 oz.; milk or water i pt.; ground ginger 1 table- 
spoon ; and a little oil ot lemon ; flour sufficient. 

Mix up the ginger in flour, and rub the butter or lard in 
also ; dissolve the soda in the milk or water; put in the 
molasses, and us<5 ihe flour in which the ginger and buttei 
is rubbed up, and :3u3icient more to make the dough of a 
proper consistence to roll out ; cut the cakes out with a 
long and narrow cutter, and wet the top with a little mo 
Losses and water, to remove the flour from the cake ; turn 
the top down, into pulverized white sugar, and place in an 
oven sufficiently hot for bread, but keep them in only to 
bake, not to dry up. This, and the '^ Federal,'' are gve'A 
favorites in Pennsylvania, where they know what is good^ 
and have the means to make it ; yet they are not expna- 
sive. 

3. Sponge Cake, With Sour I^Iilk. — Flour 3 cups; fine 
white sugar 2 cups; 6 eggs; sour milk i cup, with saleratus 1 
tea-spoon. 

Dissolve the saleratus in the milk ; beat the eggs sepa- 
rately ; sift the flour and sugar ; first put the sugar inrc 
the milk and eggs, then the flour, and stir all well togeth-r, 
using any flavoring extract which you prefer, 1 tea-spoon — 
lemon, however, is the most common As soon as the il-u) 



bakers' and cookixXg department. 283 

{ \ stirred in, put it immediately into a quick oven ; and if 
it iS all put into a common square bread-pan, for which it 
makes the right amount, it will require about twenty to 
thirty minutes to bake ; if baked in small cakes, proportion 
ateiy less. 

4. Sponge Cake with Sweet Milk.^ — As sour milk 
cannuc always be had, I give you a sponge cake with sweet 
milk 

Nice brow^n sugar 1| cups ; 3 eggs ; sweet milk 1 cup ; flour 
8^ cups ; cream of tartar and soda, of each 1 tea-spoon ; lemon 
essence 1 tea-spoon. 

Thoroughly beat the sugar and eggs together ; mix the 
cream of tartar and soda in the milk, stirring in the flavor 
also ; then mix in the flour, remembering that all cakes 
ought to be baked soon after making. This is a very nice 
cake, notwithstanding what is said of " Berwick,'^ below. 

5. Berwick SpOinge Cake without Milk. — Six eggs , pow- 
<.iered white sugar 3 cups ; sifted flour 4 even cups ; cream of 
lartar 2 tea-spoons; cold water 1 cup; soda 1 teaspoon; one 
icmon. 

First, beat the eggs two minutes, and put in the sugar 
and beat five minutes more ; then stir in the cream of tar- 
car and two cups of the flour, and beat one minute; now 
dissolve the soda in the water and stir in, having grated the 
rind of the lemon, squeeze in half of the juice only; and 
boally add the other two cups of flour and beat all one min- 
ute, and put into deep pans in a moderate oven. There is 
considerable beating about this cake, but if itself does not 
beat all the sponge cakes you ever beat, we will acknowl 
edge it to be the hcatimj cake, all around. 

6. Surprise Cake.— One Ggg\ sugar 1 cup; butter i cup; 
sweet milk 1 cup; soda 1 tea-spocn; cream of tartar 2 tea- 
spoons. 

Flavor with lemon, and use sufficient sifted flour tomak 
the proper consistence, and you will really be surprised t 
see its bulk and beauty. 

7. Sugar Cake.— Take 7 eggs and beat the w^hites and yolks 
separately ; then beat w^ell together ; now put into them sifted 
white sugar 1 lb. ; with melted butter ^ lb., and a small tea- 
spoon of pulverized carbonate of ammonia. 

Stir in just sufficient sifted flour to allow of its being 
veiled out and cut into cakes. 



284 DK. chase's recipes. 

8. GiXGEK Cake. — Molasses 2 cups; butter, or one-half lard 
if you choose, 1>^ cups; sour milk 2 cups ; grouucl ginger 1 
tea-spoou, saleratus 1 heaping tea-spoon. 

IMash the saleratus, then mix all these ingreclicnts together 
in a suitable pan, and stir in flour as long a,s you can with 
a spoon; then take the hand and work in more, just so jon 
can roll them by using flour dusting pretty freely ; roll out 
thin, cut and lay upon your buttered or floured tins; then 
mix one spoon ot molasses and two of water, and with a 
small brush or bit ot cloth wet over the top of the cakes; 
this removes the dry flour, causes the cakes to take a nice 
brown and keep them moist; put into a quick oven, and 
ten minutes will bake them if the oven is suflicientl}^ hot. 
Do not diy them all up, but take out as soon as nicely 
bi owned. 

We have sold cakes out of the grocery for years, but nevei 
ouncl any to give as good satisfaction a^ th3=;e, cithci at table 
lor (•ounter They keep moist, and are sufficiently rich and 
ignt for ail cake eaters. 

9 Tea or Cup Cake— Four eggs; nice brown sugar 2 
cups; saleratus 1 tea-spoon; sour mflk 3 cups ; melted butter 
or half lard 1 cup ; half a grated nutmeg , flour. 

Put the eggs and sugar into a suitable pan and beat (o- 
jrether- dissolve the saleratus m the milk and add to the 
egos and sugar- put m the butter and nutmeg also stir 
ail well- then sift in flour suffic^ient to make the mass to 
such a consistence that it will not run from a spoon when 
ifted upou It. Any one preferring leiuon can use that m 
place of nutmeg. Bake rather slowly. 

10 Cake, I^ick, without Eoas or Milk —A very nice 
cake is made as follows, and it will keep well also; 

Flour 314 ^^s. ; sugar U^ lb ; butter 1 lb • water U ptl« 
having i tea spoon of saleratus dissolved m it. 
Roii thiL and bake on tin sheets 

11. Pork Cake, without Butter. Milk, or Eggs —A) 
most dehglitful cvike is made by the use of pork, which save' 
the expense of butter, eggs, and milk. It niu.st be tasted'to " 
appreciated; and another advant'.ige of )t is thot you cabp 
make enough, some leisure day, to last the season >iirou<^lir. 
for I have eaten it two months after it was baked s^iii iPirp 
and moist. ' ' ^' 



BAKERS AND COOKING DEPARTMENT 285 

Fat, salt pork, entirely tree of lean or rind, chopped so fine 
88 to be almost like lard 1 ]b. ; pour ])oiling water upon it ^ pt. ; 
raisins seeded and choppod i lb. ; citron shaved into shreds i lb. ; 
sugar 2 cups; molasses 1 cup ; saleratus 1 tea-spoon, rubbed fine 
and put into the molasses. Mix these all togetlier, and stir in 
sifted flour to make the consistence of common cake mixtures; 
then stir in nutmeg and cloves finely ground 1 oz. each ; cinna- 
mon, also fine, 2 ozs. ; be governed about the time of baking il 
by putting a sliver into it — when nothing adheres it is done. It 
should be baked slowly. 

You can substitute other fruit in place of the raisins, if 
desired, using as much or as little as you please, or none at 
all, and still have a nice cake. In this respect you may call 
it the accommodation cake, as it accommodates itself to th( 
wiahes or circumstances of its lovers. 

AV^hen p^vk will do all we here claim for it, who will lon- 
ger contend that it is not fit to eat ? Who ! 

13. Cider Oake.— Flour 6 cups ; sugar 3 cups ; butter 1 cup ; 
i eggs ; cider 1 cup ; saleratus 1 tea-spoon ; 1 grated nutmeg. 

}^eat the eggs, sugar, and butter together, and stir in the 
flour and nutmeg; dissolve the saleratus in the cider and 
stir into the mass and bake immediately, in a quick oven. 

18. Ginger Snaps. — Butter, lard, and brown sugar, of each i 
lb. ; molasses 1 pt. ; ginger 2 table-spoon ; flour 1 qt. ; saleratus 
2 iea-spoons ; sour miliri cup. 

Melt the butter ard lard, and whip in the sugar, molas- 
ses, and ginger ; dissolve the saleratus in the milk and put 
in ; then the flour, and if needed, a little more flour^ to en- 
able you to roll out very thin; cut into small cakes and 
bake in a slow oven until snappish. 

14. Jei LY Cake — Five eggs ; sugar 1 cup ; a little nutmeg ; sal- 
eratus 1 tea-spoon ; sour milk 2 cups ; flour. 

Beat the eggs, sugar, and nutmeg together ; dissolve the 
saleratus in the milk, and mix ; then stir in flour to maku 
only a thin batter, like pan-cakes ; three or four spoons of 
the batter to a common round tin ; bake in a quick oven 
^J'hree or four of these thin cakes, with jelly between, form 
one cake, the jelly being spread on while the cake is warm 

15. Boll, jEiiLY Cake. — Nice brown sugar H cups ; 3 eggs ; 
sweet skim milk 1 cup; flour 2 cups, or a Utile more only; cream 
of tartar and soda, of each 1 tea-spoon ; lemon essence 1 tea- 
Bpoou. 

Thoroughly beat the eggs and sugar together ; n^Ix the 



286 



DR. CHASE'S RECIPES. 



cream of tartar and soda with the milk, stirring in the fla- 
vor also ; now mix in the flour, remembering to bake soon, 
spreading thin upon a long pan ; and as soon as done spread 
jelly upon the top and roll up ^ slicing off" only as used ; the 
jelly does not come in contact with the fingers, as in tbe 
last, or flat cakes. 





o 




5 


16. 


Pound, 1 lb. 


lib. 


lib. 


17. 
18. 
19. 
20. 


Genuine Whig, 2 " 
Shreivsbury, 1 " 
Training, 3 '' 
Nut-Cake, 7 " 


8ozs 
lib. 


.. 8 0Z£ 

fib. 

f " 
2 " 



21. Short-Cake, 


5 " 


*2. Cymbals, 


2 " 


23. Bm-k Cake, 


5 " 


24. Jumbles, 


5 '' 


25. Ginger-Bread, 


1 " 


26. Wonders, 

27. Cookies. 


2 '' 

3 " 



f " I " — 



28. York Biscuit, 3 " ^ " f " — 



29. Common, 
80. Loaf, 



12 " 
9qts. 



31. Molasses Cake.- 
spoon ; sour milk 2 cups 
wiiat you would take up 
ea.t. 



8 rose-water thref* 
spoons, mace, &c. 

— raise with yeast. 

— rose-water, &c. 

— ciu'n, nutmeg. 
7 cin'n, wet witl- 

milk, raise with 
yeast, or wet and 
raise with sour 
milk&saleratus. 

8 ozs. I " — 8 rose-water and 
nutmeg. 

8 " i " — 6 rose-water anc 
h little spice. 

8 '* f " 1 pt. 9 rose-water, raise 
with yeast. 

1 lb. 2 '* — 6 roll out in loaf 
sugar. 

•J " i '' — 3 yolks only — ^gin 
ger to suit. 

^ " I " — 10 cinnamon. 

3 or without egg? 
— wet up, raise 
with saleratus 
and sour milk. 
— wet up, and raise 
with sour milk 
and saleratus.. 

3 " 3 " 2 qts. — yeast, spice to 
taste. 

3 u 4 « I gal — ^jjjg I pi^^ yea?t 1 

pint. 

-Molasses H cups; saleratus 1 tea 
; 2 eggs ; butter, lard, or pork gravy, 
on a spoon ; if you use lard add, a littU 



bakers' and cooking department. 28? 

Mix all by beating a minute or two with a spoon, dis- 
suiving the saleratus in the milk ; then stir in flour to give 
the consistence of soft-cake, and put directly into a hot 
OYcn, being careful not to dry them up by over-baking, aa 
it is a soft, moist cake, that we are after. 

S2. Marbled Cake. — Those having any curiosity tc 
gratify upon their own part, or on the part of friends, will 
be highly pleased with the contrast seen when they take a 
piece \yf a cake made in two parts, dark and light, as follows : 

Light Part. — ^Yhite sugar H cups ; butter i cup ; sweet 
milk ^ cap; soda ^ tea-spoon; cream of tartar 1 tea-spoon j 
whites of 4 eggs ; flour 2^ cups ; beat and mixed as " Gold Cake.'> 

Dark Part. — Brown sugar 1 cup ; molasses i cup ; butter ^ 
cup , sour milk | cup ; soda i tea-spoon ; cream of tartar 1 tea- 
spoon ; flour 2i cups ; yolks of 4 eggs ; cloves, allspice, cinna- 
mon, and nutmeg, ground, of each 1 table-spoon ; beat and 
mixed as " Gold Cake." 

Directions. — When each part is ready, drop a spoon of 
dark, chen a spoon of light, over the bottom of the dish, in 
which it is to be baked, and so proce<3d to fill up the pan. 
dropping the light upon the dark as you continue with the 
different layers. 

83. Silver Cake. — Whites of 1 doz. eggs. ; flour 5 cups ; 
white sugar and butter, of each 1 cup ; cream or sweet mi!k 1 
cup; cream of tartar 1 tea-spoon; soda i tea-spoon; beat and 
mLx as the " Gold Cake." Bake in a deep pan. 

34. Gold Cake. — Yolks of 1 doz. eggs ; flour 5 cups ; white 
sugar 3 cup* ; butter 1 cup ; cream or sweet milk 1^ cups ; soda 
i tea-spoon • cream of tartar 1 tea-spoon. Bake in a deep loaf 
pan. 

Beat th^ eggs with the sugar, having the butter softened 
by the Are ; then stir it in ; put the soda and cream of tar- 
tar into the cream or milk, stirring up and mixing all to- 
gether ; then sift and stir in the flcur. 

The gold and silver cakes dropped as directed in tho 
'^ Marbled Cake,'' gives you still anothor variety. 

35. BaiDE Cake. — Presuming that this work may fall 
into the hands of some persons who may occasionally have 
a wedding amongst them, it would be imperfect without a 
*^ wedding cake,'^ and as I have lately had an opportunity 
to test this one, upon '' such an o<».casion,'' in my own family. 
I can bear testimony, so can tht '' printer,^' to its adapta 
uon for all similar displays. 



DR. CHASE S RECIPES. 

Take butter 1^ lbs. ; sugar If lbs., half of which is to be O^ 

leans sugar ; eggs well beaten, 2 lbs. ; raisins 4 lbs. ; having the 
seeds taken out, and chopped ; English currants having the gn% 
picked out and nicely washed 5 lbs. ; citron, cut fine, 2 lbs. 
j-ifted flour 2 lbs. ; nutmegs 2 in number, and mace as much in 
hulk ; alcohol 1 gill to i pt., in which a dozen or fifteen drops 
c f oil of lemon have been put. 

When ready to make your cake, weigL your butter ana 
otit it in pieces, and put it v/here it will soften, but nor, melt 
Next, stir the butter to a cream, and then add the sugar, and 
work till white. Next beat the yolks of the eggs, and put 
them to the sugar and butter. Meanwhile another person 
.should beat the whites to a stiff froth and put them in. Then 
add the spices and flour, and, last of all, the fruit, except the 
citron, whish is to be put in about three layers, the bottom 
layer about one inch from the bottom, and the top one, an 
inch from the top, and the other in the middle, smoothing 
the top of the cake by dipping a spoon or two of water 
upon it for that purpose. 

The pan in which it is baked should be about thirteen 
inches across the top, and five and a half or six inches deep, 
without scollops, and two three-quart pans also, which it will 
fill ; and they will require to be slowly baked about three to 
four hours. But it is impossible to give definite rules as to 
the time required in baking cake. Try whether the cake id 
done, by piercing it with a broom splinter, and if nothing 
adheres, it is done. ** 

Batter the cake pans well ; or if the pans are lined with 
buttered white paper, the cake will be less liable to burn. 
Moving cakes while baking tends to make them heavy. 

The price of a large *' Bride Cake,^^ like this, would be 
about twelve dollars, and the cost of making it would be 
about three dollars only, with your two small ones^ which 
would cost as much to buy them as it does to make the whole 
three. 

The foregoing was written and printed over a year ago. 
The daughter came home, and took dinner with us, one year 
from the marriage ; and her mother set on some of the cake 
as nice and moist as when baked. 

36. Fruit Cake. — As side accompaniments to the ^'Bride 
Cake,'^ you will require several ^* Fruit Cakes,'' which are to 
be made as follows : 



'BAKERS' AND COOKINO DEPARTiMENT. 289 

Butter, sugar, English currants, eggs, and flour, of each 5 lbs 
Mix as ip the "• Bride Cake." 

Bake in about six cakes, which would cost from one dol- 
lar and fifty cents to two dollars a-piece, if bought for the 
occasion. 

87, Frosiing, or Icmo, for Cakes.-— The whites of 8 eggs 
beat to a perfect froth and stiff; pulverized white sugar 2 lbs • 
Rtarcli 1 table-spoon ; pulverized gum arabic i oz. ; the juice of 
1 lemon. 

Hift the sugar, starch, and gum arable into the beaten e<xg^ 
^nd stir well and long. When the cake is cold lay on a coat 
of the frosting; it is best not to take much pains in putting 
on the first coat, as little bits of the cake will mix up with 
it, and give the frosting a yellow appearance ; but on the 
next day, make more frosting the same as the first, and apply 
a second coat, and it will be white, clear, and beautiful. 
And by dipping the knife into cold water a^s applying, you 
can smooth the frosting very nicely. 

38. Excellent Crackeks.— Butter 1 cup; salt 1 tea-spoon r 
Qour 2 qts. ^ ^ 

Rub thoroughly t5gether with the hand, and wet up with 
cold water; beat well, and beat in flour to make quite brittle 
a.nd hard ; then pinch off pieces and roll out each cracker by 
itself, if you wish them to resemble bakers' crackers. 

39. Sugar CKACKEi?s.-Flour 4 lbs.; loaf sugar and butter, 
ot each i lb. ; water U pts. Make as above. 

1 fb ^^^^^ BiscuiT.-White sugar, eggs, and flour, of eacii 

If properly pulverized, sifted, beat, mixed, and bakc<I 
the size of Boston crackers, you will say it is nice indeed. 

41. BucKWicEA r SnoKT-CAKE.— Take 3 or 4 tea-cups of nice 
^ur milk, 1 toix-ppoon of soda-saleratus dissolved in the milk • if 
the milk h very aour, you must use saleratus in proportion, ^^^\\^ 
H little salt ; mn up a dough with buckwheat flour, tJdcker than 
fou would mix the same for griddie-cakes, say quite stiif • put 
mto a buttered tin, and put directly into the stove oven and 
bake about 60 minutes ; or as you would a short-cake from com- 
mon flour. 

It takes the place of the griddle-cake, also of the short- 
cake, in every sense of the word— nice with meat, butter, 
honey, molasses, &c No shortening is used, and no need 
ot setting your dish of batter over night, for a drunkea 

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290 DR. chase'8 recipes. 

husband to set his foot in. Wet the top a little, and wana 
it up at next meal, if any is left — it is just as good as when 
first made, while griddle-cakes have to be thrown away. It 
is also very good, cold. 

"Was the beauty of this cake known to the majority of 
persons, throughout the country generally, buckwheat 
would become as staple an article of commerce as the com- 
mon wheat. Do not fail to give it a trial. Some persons^ 
in trying it, have not had good luck the first time ; the^ 
have failed from the milk's being too sour for the amount of 
saleratus used, or from making the dough too thin. I 
think I can say we have made it hundnds of times with 
success, as I could eat it while dyspeptic, when I could eat 
BO other warm bread. 

42. Yeast Cake. — Good lively yeast 1 pt.; rye or wheat floui 
to form a thick batter ; salt 1 tea-spoon ; stir in and set to use 
when risen, stir in Indian meal, until it will roll out good. 

When again risen, roll out very thin; cut them into 
eakef? and dry in the shade ; if the weather is the least 
damp, by the fire or stove. If dried in the sun, they wil) 
"erment. 

To uj?e : Dissolve one in a little warm water, and stir in 
a couple of table-spoons of flour; set near the fire, and 
when light, mix into the bread. If made perfectly dry, 
tbey will keep for six months. 

BREADS — Yankee Biiowk Bkeai>. — For each good sized 
loaf being made, take 1| pts. corn meal, and pour boiling water 
upon it, to scald it properly; let stand until only blood warm, 
then put about 1 qt. of rye flour upon the meal, and pour in a 
good bowl of emptyings, with a little saleratus dissolved in a 
gill of water, kneading in more flour, to make of the consistence 
of common bread. If you raise it with yeast, put a little salt \jb 
the meal, but if you raise it with salt-risings, or emptymga 
which I prefer, no moi*€ salt is needed. 

Form into loaves, and let them set an hour and a half, ox 
tsiitil light ; in a cool place, in summer, and on the hearth, , 
or under the stove, in winter; then bake about two hours^ 
Make the dough fully as stiff as for wheat bread, or a little i 
harder ; for if made too soft it does not rise good. The old I 
style was to use only one-third rye flour, but it does nol > 
wear if made that way ; or, in other words, most persons get f 
tired of it when mostly corn meal, but I never do whe 
mostly rye fiour. 



bakers' and cookinq department. 291 

Let all persons bear in mind that bread should never bo 
wten the day ou which it is baked, and positively must this 
be. observed by dyspeptics. Hotels never ought to be with. 
out this bread, nor families who care for health. 

2 Graham Bread.— I find in Zioa's Herald, of Bos- 
ton, edited by Rev. E O Haven, formerly a Professor in 
the University at this city, a few remarks upon the " Differ 
ent Kinds of Bread," including Graham, which so full 
explam the philosophy/, and true principles of bread- 
making, that I give them an insertion, for the benefit of 
bread-makera. It says : 

"Rice Bour added to wheat flour, enables it to take up 
an increased quantity of water." [See the " New French 
Method of Making Bread."] " Boiled and mashed potatoes 
mixed with the dough, cause the bread to retain moisture 
and prevent it from drying and crumbling. Rye makes a 
dark-colored bread; but it is capable of being fermented 
and raised in the same manner as wheat. It retains its 
freshness and moisture longer than wheat. An admixture 
ot rye flour with that of wheat, decidedly improves the lat 
ter m this respect. Indian corn bread is much used in thi 
country. Mixed with wheat and rye, a dough is produced 
capable of fermentation, but pure maize meal cannot be fer- 
mented so as to form a light bread. Its gluten lacks the 
tenacious quality necessary to produce the regular cell-struc- 
ture. It IS most commonly used in the form of cakes, made 
to a certain degree light by eggs or sour milk, and saleratus 
and IS generally eaten warm. Indian corn is ground intj 
meal of various degrees of coarseness, but is never made so 
hne as wheaten flour. Bread or cakes from maize require 
a considerably longer time to be acted upon by heat in the 
baking process, than wheat or rye. If ground wheat be 
unbolted, that is, if its bran be not separated, wheat meal or 
braham flour results, from which Graham or dyspepsia 
bread is produced. It is made in the same general way aa 
other wheaten bread, but requires a little peculiar manage- 
ment. Upon this point, Mr. Graham remarks : 

The wheat meal, and especially if it is ground coarselv swella 
at firThP^'^ f the dough, and therefore the dough Swnt 
at first be made quite so stiff as that made of superg.^e flour and 
When It 18 raised, if it is found too soft to mould wdla'liS 



292 



DU. CIIASK'S RKCIPES, 



1 ^AAc.A Tt should be remarked that dough 
more n^^l ^^f^^ ^/'ffj take on the acetous fermentation, or 
made of wheat meal win tase ou i requires ? 

. ,L "bi., or buc4»he.l sWrl-oke, .houM be tb. 0.1; lm<l» 



eaten. 



Willi Siiierauis' as for biscuit. 

Roll out and cut with a tea-cup and bake as other biscuit 
an wlJn Uld they are just the thing for dyspep^s^ And 
if the {lour was sifted, none would refuse to eat them 

For THE CoFFEB.-Continue the baking of ^^'ej'bove 
bi.cui? in a slow oven for six or seven hours, or until they 
arc browned through like coffee. 

DniECTioN-s-One biscuit boiled J of an hour ^''1' \f. P .^^'J 
fa, 2 or 3 e°^>9 of coffee, and 3, for C persons ; serve with ciean 
and sugar as other coffoa. , 4 • i,;„ 

Dyspeptics should chew very fine, and slowly, not dnnkinj 
JfX'meal is over; then sip tbecoflee at their ensure 
oot more than one cup, however. This will b^^^-^"; ]7 
oice for common use, say with one-eighth coflee artded , 
hardly anrwould distinguish the difference between .t and 
^hlt made fmm coffee alone. The plan of buying -ound 
ccL 1 bad ; much of it is undoubtedly mixed with peas 
w'd^h you can raise for less than fifteen or twenty o^ut. a 
pound, and mix for yourself. 

5 London Baker's Superior Loaf Bread. -The 
mk^an Farmer gives us the following; any one e^ ^. 
that it contains sound sense : 

kdd i l>t. of yeast, or 4 07 «' ^'^[^'Jj™. tj, j 'ib. of flo.u.to. 



BjKltRS' AND COOKING DEPARTMENT. 293 

The sponge so made is tlien to be mixed with 1 pt. of w^ater, 
nearly blood warm— viz, 92 deg. Falir., and poured into a halt, 
peck of flour, which has previously had 1^ ozs. of salt mixed into 
It ; the whole should then be kneaded into dough, and allowed 
to rise in a warm place for 2 hours, when it should be kneaded 
into loaves and baked." 

The object of adding the mashed potatoes is to increa;?e 
the amount of fermentation in the sponge, which it does t<? 
a very remarkable degree, and consequently, renders 'the 
bread lighter and better. The potatoes will also keep the 
bread moist. 

6. Old Bachelor's Bread, Biscuit, or Pie-Crust.— Floui 
1 qt. ; cream of tartar 2 tea-spoons ; soda f tea-spoon ; sweet 
milk to wet up the flour to the consistence of biscuit dough. 

Rub the flour and cream of tartar well together ; dissolve 
the soda in the milk, wetting up the flour with it and bake 
immediately. If you have no milk, use water in its place, 
adding a spoon of lard to obtain the same richness. It 
does well for pie-crust where you cannot keep up sour milk. 

7. New French Method of Making Bread.— Take rice | 
lb.; tie it up in a thick linen bag, giving ample room for it to 
swell ; boil it from 3 to 4 hours, or until it becomes a perfect 
paste; mix this while warm with 7 lbs. of flour adding the usual 
quantities of yeast and salt; allow the dough to work a proper 
time near the fire, then divide into loaves. Dust them in, and 
knead vigorously. 

This quantity of flour and rice makes about thirteen and 
one-half lbs. of bread, which will keep moist much longei 
than without the rice. It was tested at the London Poly 
technic Institute, after having been made public in France, 
with the above results. 

8. BAKiNa Powders, for Biscuit Without Shortening. 
—Bi-carbonate of soda 4 ozs.; cream of tartar 8 ozs.; and properly 
dry them, and thoroughly mix. It should be kept in well corked 
bottles to prevent dampness which neutralizes the acid. 

Use about three tea-spoons to each quart of flour being 
baked ; mix with milk, if you have it, if not, wet up with 
cold water and put directly into the oven to bake. 

PIES.— Lemon Pie, Extra NiCE.—One lemon ; water 1 cup; 
biwn sugar 1 cup; flour 2 table-spoons; 5 eggs; white sugar 2 
table-spoons. » oo > & 

Grate the rind from the lemon, squeeze out the juice, 
and chop up the balance very fine ; put all together and 



294 DR. chase's recipes. 

add the water, brown sugar, and flour, working the mass 
iDto a smooth paste ; beat the eggs and mix with the paste, 
saving the whites of two of them ; make two pies, bakmg 
with no top crust ; while these are baking, beat the whites 
of the two egii'S, saved for that purpose, to a stiff froth and 
stir in the white sugar ; when the pies are done, spread this 
frosting evenly over them, and set again in tl>e ovon and 
brown slightly. 

2. Pie-Crlst Glaze.— In making any pie which ha» 

a juicy mixture, the juice soaks into the crust, making it 

soggy and unfit to eat ; to prevent this : 

Beat an egg well ; and with a brush or bit cf cloth, wet the 

crust of the pie with the beaten egg, just before you put in the 

pie mixture. 

For pies which have a top crust also, wet the top with 

the same before baking, which gives it a beautiful yellow 

brown. It gives beauty also to biscuit, ginger cakes, and i? 

iust the thing for rusk, by putting in a little sugar. 

3. Apple Pie avhicii is Digestible.— Instead of mix 
ing up your crust with water and lard, or butter, making it 
very rich, with shortening, as customary for apple pies : 

Mix it np every way just as you w ould for biscuit, using sour 
milk' and saleraius, with a Utile lard or butter only ; mix the 
doimh quite stiii; roll out rather thin, lay it upon your tin oi 
plate; and having ripe apples sliced or chopped nicely and laid f 
on rather thick, and sugar according to the acidity ot tne ap- 
ples then a top crust, and bake well, putting the egg upon the 
crusts, as mentioned in the " Pie Crust Glaze," and you have got 
a pie that is lit to eat. 

But when you make the rich crust, and cook the apples? 
and put them on, it soaks the crust, which does not bake, 
and no stomach can digest it, whilst our way gives you a 
nice light crust, and does not take half the shortening of f 
tlie other plan ; yet perhaps nothing is saved pecuniarily,; 
aii butter goes as finely with the biscuit-crust-pies, when hot,l 
as it does with biscuit; but the pie is digestible, and when 
it is cold, does not taste bad to cut it up on your plat«,t 
with plenty of sweetened cream. 

4. Apple Custakd Pie-Tiie Nicest Pie ev^r Eaten.-; 
Peel sour apples and stew until soft and not much water lelt m 
them; then rub them through a cullender-beat 3 eggs for eacbJ 
pie to be baked ; and put in at the rate of 1 ctip ot butter aBd 1 
of sugar for 8 pias; season with nutmeg ' 



bakers' and cooking department. 295 

My "Wife has more recently made them with only 1 egg to each 
pie, y^ith only half of a cup of butter and sugar each, to 4 or 5 
piey; but the amount of sugar must be governed somcvvhat by 
the acidity of the apples. 

Bake as pumpkin pies, which they resemble in appear- 
ance } and between them and apple pies in taste; very nice 
indeed. We find them equally nice with dried apples by 
making them a little more juicy. 

If a frosting was put upon them, as in the " Lemon Pie,^ 
fhen returned, for a few moments, to the oven, the appear- 
ance, at least, would be improved. 

5. Apple Custard, Very ISTice.— Take tart apples, that are 
quite juicy, and stew and rub them, as in the recipe above, ana 
to 1 pt. of the apple, beat 4 eggs and put in, with 1 table-spoon 
of sugar, 1 ot butter, and i of a grated nutmeg. 

Bake as other custardj^. It is excellent; and makes a 
good substitute for butter, apple butter, &c. 

6. Paste for Tarts.— Loaf sugar, flour, and butter, equal 
weights of each; mix thoroughly by beating with a rolling-pin, 
for half an hour; folding up and beatLug again and again. 

When properly mixed, pinch off small pieces and roll out 
each crust by itself, which causoa them to dish so as to hold 
the tart-mixture. And if you *vill have a short pie-crust, 
this is the plan to make it, 

PUDDINGS— Biscuit Pudding, Without Be-Baking — 
Take water 1 qt. ; sugar J lb. ; buner the size of a hen's egg; 
tl jur 4 table-spoons ; nutmeg, grated i of one. 

Mix the flour with just sujfioient cold water to rub up ali 
the lumps while the balance of the Wdter is heating, mix 
all, and split the biscuit once or twice, and put into this 
Cravy while it is hot, and keep hot until used at table. It 
ascs up cold biscuit, and I prefer it to richer puddings. It 
IB indeed worth a trial. This makes a nice dip gravj also 
for other puddings. 

2. Old English Christmas Plum Pudding —The 

Harrisburg Telegroph furnishes its readers with a recipe for 
the real " Old English Christmas Plum Pudding.'^ After 
having given this pudding a fair test, I am willing to endorse 
every word of it ] and wish for the holiday to tome oftenei 
than once a year : 

*'To make what is called a pound pudding; take of raisina 



296 DR. chase's eecipes. 

^ell sloued bat not clioppecl, currants t^o'-o^f-' '^"'^.^S I lb 
each- chop suet 1 lb. very finely, and mix \Mth tnem , -icw * 'O- 
of flour or breaA very finely crumbled; 3 ozs. of sugar; H oza 
of c?ated lemon peel, a blade of mace, i of a smal Butnw 1 
tealpoon of ginger, i doz. of eggs, well beaten; ^'O*^^.;;''^ \ « 
ge her, put itln I cloth, tie it firmly, allowing room to siv ell ; p U 
ft into boiling water, and boil not less than two hours, xt.hould 
not be suffered to stop boiling. 

The cloth, when about to be used, should be dipped into 
oilins ^vater, squeezed dry, and floured ; and wher the 
pudding is done, have a pan of cold water ready, und dip 
it in fo? u moment, as soon as it comes out of the pot, which 
prevents the pudding from sticking to the cloth. * f'" a/P" 
oravv for this or other puddings, see the " Biscuit Pudding, 
without Re-Baking," or "Spreading Sauce for Puddings. 

3. Indian Ptoding, To BAKK.--Nice ^^yf ^ m"k 1 q^ J^^^' 
ter 1 oz.; 4 eggs, well beaten; Indian meal 1 tea-cap, laism* i 
11). ; sugar i lb. 

Scald the milk, and stir in the mea whilst buihng; then 
let it stand until only blood-warm, and stir aU wel togeth- 
or and bake about one and a half hours. Eaten with sweet- 
ened cream, or either of the pudding saucei. mentioned m 
the " Christmas Pudding." 

4 TxniAN Pudding, To Boil.— Indian meai 1 cjt., with a i 
lilie sXo eggs; sour milk 1 cup; saleratus 1 tea-spoon; rai 

sins 1 lb. . 1 ^- * " 

Scald the meal, having the salt i>^ >M when cool stir in j 

the beaten eggs ; dissolve the saleratus in the milk and stitr 

n also, then the'raisins; English currants, dried, currants, 
or dried berries, of any kind answer every P^^F^^'j; ;;«; 
in fact, very nice in place of the raisins Boil about one 
and a half hours. Eaten with sweetened cream or any oft 
Se pudding sauces. Any pudding to be boiled must not 
be put into'the water until it boils, and taken out as soon as 

•one, or they become soggy and unfit to eat. 

5 QUICK Indian PuDDiNO.-Take U cups o' sour milk ,3 
eggs Sell beaten 1 small tea-spoon of s^ileratus ; d.sso ved ^ 

above;^ or, if you have no fruit, it is quite nice without j 

Tie up and boil one hour ; sweetened cream with a lit tia 

nutmeg makes a nice sauce. As I have just eateu of tb» 

for my diuuer, I throw it in extra, tor it is worthy. 



BAKEK8' AND COOKING DEPAETMENT. 297 

6. Flour Pudding, To Botl. — When persons have 
plenty of dried apples or peaches, axid not much of the 
smaller fruits ; or desire to change fn»Tn them in puddings ! 

Take wheat flour siiflicient to make a good pan of biscuit, and 
mix it up as for biscuit, with sour ni'lk, saleratus, and a little 
butter or lard, roll out rather thicker than for pie-crust; now 
having your apples or peaches nicely stewed wet the crust over 
wjtii the ''Pie Crust Glaze," then spread a layer of the fruit upon 
It, adding a little sugar, as it lies upon the table; and if you 
ehoose, scatter over them a handful of raisins, or any other of 
the dried fruits mentioned ; roll up the whole together, and boil 
1 hour. 

Eaten with any sauc<5 ivhich you may prefer, but the 
corn meal puddings ar^ much the most healthy, and I pre- 
fer their taste to those made from flour. 

7. Potato Pudding. — Rub through a cullender 6 large or 12 
middle-sized potatoes ; beat 4 eggs, mix with 1 pt. of good milk ; 
stir in the potatoes, sugar and seasoning to taste; butter the 
dish ; bake ^ an hour. 

This recipe is simple and economical, as it is made of 
*vhat is wasted in many families, namely, cold potatoes ; 
»vhich may be kept two or three days, until a sufficient 
quantity is collected. To be eaten with butter. 

8. Green Corn Pudding.— Green corn, raw, 2 doz. ears ; 
sweet milk 3 to 4 qts.; 6 eggs ; sugar 1 to 2 cups. Salt to suit 
the taste. 

Split the kernels lengthwise of the ear with a sharp 
knife ; then with a case knife scrape the corn from the cob, 
which leaves the hulls on the cob ; mix it with the milk 
and other articles, and bake from two to three hours. To 
be eaten with butter and sugar. 

9. Steadied Pudding. — Two eggs ; sugar 1 cup ; sour milk 1 
cup ; saleratus i tea-spoon ; a little salt ; dried whortleberries, 
currants, raisins, or other fruit 1 cup ; flour. 

Beat the eggs and stir in the sugar; dissolve the salera 
tus in the milk, and mix in also the fruit and salt ; then 
thicken with flour, rather thicker than for cake ; put into a 
two-quart pan and set in the steamer, and steam an hour 
and a half; and I think it will crack open on the back — if 
Dot, try again. ^It is worth the trouble, especially if you 
bAve plenty of sweetened cream. 

10. Spreading Sauce, for Pudding s.—Butter 4 ozs.; sugai 
6 ozs.; 1 nutmeg. 



298 DR. chase's recipes. 

Grate the nutmeg, and rub all together ; these are aoout 
the proper proportions, but more or less can be made, aa 
desired, and more or le«s nutmeg can also be used ; or any 
other flavoring in their place. This sauce is nice on baked 
puddings, hot or cold ; and to tell it all, it is not bad or 
bv^ad. Sec the ^' Biscuit Pudding,'^ for dip-sauces. 

DOMESTIC DISHES— Gkeen Corn Omelet.— Green con. 
boiled 1 doz. ears ; 5 eggs ; salt and pepper to suit the taste. 

llemove the corn from the cob, as mentioned in the 
'^ Green Corn Pudding/' The splitting allows the escape 
of the pulp, whilst the hull is held by the cob ; season, 
form into small cakes, and fry to a nice brown, and you 
have a very nice omelet. 

2. APPLES— To Bake— Steamboat Style— Eettek than 
Preserves. — Take moderately sour apples, when ripe ; and 
wiih a pocket-knife cut out the stem, and flower-end also, so as 
to remove the skin from these cup-shaped cavities ; wash them, 
and place them in a dripping-pan ; now fill these cavities with 
brown su^rar, and pretty freely between them also, with sugar; 
then lay on a tew lumps of butter over the sugar; place them, 
thus arranged, into the oven when you begin to heat up the 
stove for breakfast or dinner, and keep them in until perfectly 
baked through and soft. 

Take them up on plates, while hot, by means of a spoon, 
and dip the gravy, arising from the apple-juice, sugar and 
butter, over them. Should any of them be left, after the 
meal is over, set them by until the next meal, when they 
may be placed in the stove oven until hot, and th^y will 
have all the beauty of the first baking. Or perhaps some 
persons may prefer them fried, as follows : 

8. Fried Apples — Extra Nice. — Take any nice sou»^ cook- 
ing apples, and, after wiping them, cut into slices about one- 
fourth of an inch thick ; have a frying-pan ready, in which 
there is a small amount of lard, say i or f of an inch in depth. 
The lard must be hot before the slices of apples are put in. Let . 
one side of them fry until brown; then turn, and put a small I 
quantity of sugar on the browned side of each slice. By the l 
tune the other side is browned, the sugar will be melted"^ and 1 
spread over the whole surface. 

Serve them up hot, and you will have a dish good 3 
enough for kings and queens, or any poor man's breakfast; 
and 1 think that even the President would not refuse a f&vf ^ 
■lioes. if properly cooked. There is but little choice be > 



bakers' and cooking department. 299 

bWQGH frying and baking by these plans ; either one is 
very nice. 

4. Apple Fritters.— Sour milk 1 pt. ; saleratusl tea-spoon; 
flour to make a batter not very stiff; 6 apples, pared and cored , 
3 eggs. 

Dissolve the saleratus in the milk * beat the eggs, and 
put in ; then the flour to make a soft batter ; chop the ap 
pies to about the size of small peas, and mix them well ic 
the batter. Fry them in lard, as you would dough-nuts 
Eaten with butter and sugar. 

5. Apple Merange.— An Excellent Substitute for Pie 
OR Pudding. — First, take a deep dish and put a bottom 
crust into it, as for a pie ; have nice sour api)les, pared, sliced, 
and stewed, sweetening slightly ; place a layer of the stewed 
apple upon the crust, say about half an inch in thickness, then 
put on a layer of nice bread, spread with butter, as for eating, 
then another layer of the apple ; now place in the oven and bake 
as a pudding, or pie ; when done, have the whites of eggs beat- 
en and mixed with a little loaf or other w^hite sugar, say 2 eggs 
for a 2-quart dish ; place this upon the merange and return it to 
the oven for a fcw^ minutes, to broAvn the efi^g mixture, or frost- 
lug. Serve wuth sugar dissolved in a little water, adding a little 
butter, with nutmeg, or lemon, as desired or preferred. 

0, Bread, To Fry — Better than Toast. — Take bread that 
IS dry ; the dryer the better, so it is not mouldy ; first dip it 
ratiii-r quickly into cold water, then into eggs which are well 
beat, Jiaving a little salt in them ; then immediately fry for a 
short time in hot lai'd until the surface is a pretty yellow or 
light brown, according to the heat of the lard. 

I liave never eaten bread cooked in any form which suits 
a^e as well as this. But the following is very nice. 

7. Toast-— German Style.— Bakers* bread 1 loaf, cut into 
slices of half an inch in thicktess ; milk 1 qt. ; 3 eggs, and 
a little salt ; beat the eggs and mix them with tlie milk, and 11a- 
vor as for custard, not cooking it however. Dip the sliced bread 
into the mixture occasionally until it is all absorbed ; then fry 
the pieces upon a buttered griddle. Serve, for dinner, with su 
gar syrup, flavored with lemon. 

This is the German style of making toast ; but is quite 
good enough for an American. And I have no doubt that 
home-made bread will answer all purposes ] ours does, cer- 
tainly. 

8. Back-woods Preserves. —Moderately boil a pint of mo- 
ias«>es, from 5 to 20 minutes, acconling to its c<>nsifieucy ; then 



303 DB. chase's recipes. 

adcl3_ e rgs, thoroughly beaten, hastily stirring t^^ni in, anc? cca- 
tinut' 'boil a few minutes longer; then season with a nu meg 
or lejsscn. 

Do not fail to give it a trial. 

9. French Honey. — White sugar 1 lb.; 6 efgs, leavinj^ out 
the whiles of 2; the juice of 3 or 4 lemons, and V^e grated rind 
of 2; and i lb. of butter. Stir over a slow fire iintil it is ebou 
the consistency of honey. 

This and the last, will be found to come much newre 
what they represent, than the Yankee's "Woodt^n nut»iog-s*' 
did, up3n trial. 

10. Muffins. — To each qt. of sweet milk ad(? 2 egr' w<^ll 
beaten ; a lump of butter half the size of an er^t^, a no fiou; 
enough to make a stiff batter. Stir in I pt. of yeas^ ; let them 
stand until perfectly light, and then bake onagnddle, n tin 
rings, made for that purpose. 

These are merely strips of tin, three-quarters of ai inch 
wide, made into rings from two and a half to three i aches 
in diameter, without bottom — the ring being simt'ly placed 
on a griddle, and the batter poured in to fill it. 

11. Mock Oysters. — Six, nice, plump, ears 9f rwcet 
corn, uncooked ; grate from the cob; beat 1 vgg, stirnug ii^to it 
dour and milk, of earjh 1 table-spoon ; season v.itli a lUtlo salt 
and pepper. Put about a tea-spoon ot butter into a suital)k' pun 
for frying, having mixed in the corn also, drop the mixture into 
the hot butter, one spoon of it in a place, turning them so as to 
try brown. Serve hot, for breakfast. 

Whether they imitate cysters or not, no one need regret 
giving them a trial. 

12. Fruit Jams, J>.llies, and Preserved. — The 
difference between commoa preserves, jellies, and jams, is 
this : Preserves are made by taking fruit and sugar, pound 
for pound, and simply cooKing them together until the 
fruit is done. 

13. Jellies are made by squeezing and straining out 
the juice only, of the fruit; then taking a pound of sugar 
for a pouod of juice, and cooking until it jells, which is 
told by taking out a little upon a cold plate. 

14. Jams are made by weighing the whole fruit, \Mush- 
iug, slicing, and putting in sufficient water to cook it well, 
then when cool, rubbing it through a tine sieve, and with 
this pulp, puttin^j: in sis n)U(*h sugnr ns there wms oi tht 



EAKERS' AND COOKING DEPARTMENT. 301 

fruit only, and cooking it very carefully, until tbe weiuht 
of tt)e jam is the same as the fruit and added sugar ; the 
w^ter, you see, is all gone ; and this is easily told by having 
previoasiy weighed the kettle in which you are cooking it. 
The jam, if nicely done, contains more of the fruit flavor 
than the jell, and is as valuable as the jell to put into water as 
a drink for invalids ; and better for flavoring syrups foi 
soda-fountains, &c. Strawberries, raspberries, blackberries 
peaciics, ana pine-apples, make very nice jams for flavoririg 
syrups. Much of the flavor of the fruit resides in tho 
ekin, pits, &c. And jams made in this way, from the black- 
berry^ are good for sore mouth, diarrhea, dysentery, &c. 

15. Fhuit Extracts. — Best alcoliol 1 pt.; oil of lemon 1 oz.; 
peel of 2 lemons. 

Break the peels, and put in with the otliers for a few 
days : then remove them, and you will have just what you 
desire, for a trifling cost, compared with the twenty-five 
cent bottles, which are so prominently set out as the nicest 
thing in the world. 

This rule holds good for all fruit oils ; but for fruits, 
Buc\\ as peaches, pine-apples, strawberries, raspberries, 
blackberries, &c., you will take alcohol and water equal 
parts, and put upon them sufficient to handsomely cover ; 
and in a few days you have the flavor and juices of tlie 
fruit, upon the principle of making " Bounce," which most 
men know more or less about. If persons will act for 
themselves, using common sense, working from known fficts 
tike these, they will not need to run after every new-fangled 
thing which is seen blazing *forth in almost every advertise- 
ment of the day. 

Vanilla, nutmeg, mace, cinnamon, &c., are made by cut- 
ting up the vanilla bean, or bruising the nutmegs, cinnamon, 
&;c., and putting about two ounces to each pint of pure 
spirit, or reduced alcohol, frequently shaking for about two 
iveeks, and filtering or pouring off very carefully-; if for 
^ale, however, they must be filtered ; for coloring any of 
the extracts see the ^' Essences,'^ and " Syrups.'' For cake?* 
and pies, however, it is just as well to pulverize nutmegs, 
mace, cinnamon, iSz;c., and use the powder, for the quantity 
required is bo small that it will never be seen in the cake or 
pie. 



802 DB. chaise's recipes. 

MEDICATED WATERS— Rose Water— Take carbonate 
of magnesia i oz.; oil of rose 30 drops ; drop the oil upon mo 
magnesia, and rub it together ; then add, rubbing all the time, 
of distilled water, if you can get it, 1 qt., if not, take the purest 
rain or snow water,— a porcelain mortar is best, but a bowl does 
very well, — then filter through filtering paper. 

The magnesia breaks up the oil globules and enables th« 
wa^r to take it up ; and the filtering removes the magnesia, 

2. Cinnamon Water. — Use the same amount of o^ maffnesia, 
and water, and treat the same a§ the " Rose Water." 

3. Peppekmint, Spearmint and Pennyroyal Waters ^ro 
made the same as above. 

4. Camphor Water. — To make camphor water, you must 
first put on a few drops of alcohol ; say 40 or 50 drop*, to 
camphor gum J oz.; and rub the camphor fine, which cn*\l)lo.a 
you to work it up with magnesia ^ oz.; tlien gradually add water 
1 qt, as mentioned in the waters above, and filtered. 

The rose and cinnamon waters are used for cooking but 
the others for medical purposes. 



MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 

WASHING FLUID— Saving Half the Wash Board La 

BOR.— Sal-soda 1 lb.; stone lime i lb.; water 5 qts.; boil a short 
time, stirring occasionally ; then let it settle and pour off the 
clear fluid into a stone jug and cork for use ; soak your white 
clothes over night, in simple water ; wring out, and soap w rist- 
bands, collars, and dirty or stained places ; have your boiler half 
filled with water, and when at scalding heat, put in one common 
tea-cup of the fluid, stir and put in your clothes, and boil for 
half an hour; then rub lightly through one suds only, rinsing 
well in the bluing water, as usual, anci all is complete. 

If you wish to wash on Monday, put warm suds to the 
clothes whilst breakfast is being got ready ; then wring oul 
and soap as above, will do just as well as soaking them ovd 
night, and my wife thinks better. 

For each additional boiler of clothes add half a cup of 
the fluid only ; of course boiling in the same water through 
the whole washing. If more water is needed in the boiler 
for the last clothes, dip it from the sudsing tub. Soak 
your woolen and calico in the suds from which you have 



MISCELLANEOUS DEPAETMENT 803 

vrashod the white clothes, whilst hanging them out, dipping 
m some of the boiling water from the boiler, if necessary ; 
then wash out the woolen and calico as usual — of course, 
washing out woolen goods before you do the calico. The 
fluid brightens instead of fading the colors in calico. 

This plan not only saves the two rubbings which women 
give their clothes before boiling, and more than half of the 
soap — does not injure the clothes, but saves their wear in 
two rubbings before boiling ; and is a good article for re- 
moving grease from floors, doors, and windows, and to re- 
move tar or grease from the hands, &c. 

I hope every lady into whose hands this recipe may fall, 
will give it a trial, as my family have now used it over seven 
years, not missing only two washings. It does not rot 
clothes, but makes them wash full or more than one-half 
easier than the old way. Seven years ought to be considered 
a sufficient test. 

The honor of this recipe is accredited to Prof. Liebig, of 
Germany. 

I have found many women using turpentine, alcohol, am- 
monia, camphor gum, &c., in their washing fluids ; but none 
of them ought ever to be used for such purposes (one wo- 
man lost the use of her arm, for six months, by using a 
fluid containing turpentine) ; the turpentine and alcohol es- 
pecially, tend to open the pores of the skin, and thus make 
the person more liable to take cold in hanging out the clothes, 
as also to weaken the arm. 

And here let me say, if it is possible to avoid it, never 
itllow the woman who washes the clothes, and thus becomes 
warm and sweaty, to hang them out ; and especially ought 
thi;^ to be regarded in the winter or windy weather. Many 
consumptions are undoubtedly brought on by these frequently 
repeated colds, in this way. It works upon the principle 
that two thin shoes make one cold, two colds an attack of 
bionchitis, two attacks of bronchitis one consumption — the 
end, a coffin. 

LIQUID BLUING--F0R Clothes.— Most of the blu 
Ing sold is poor stuff, leaving specks in the clothes. To 
avoid this : 

Take best Prussian-blue, pulverized, 1 oz. ; oxalic acid, also 
pulverized, i oz. ; soft water 1 qt. Mix. The acid dissolves the 



3U4 DR. chase's EECIPEa, 

blue and holds il eyenly in the water, so tliat specking will dctcJ 
take place. One or two table-spoons of it is sufficient for a tub 
of water, according to the size of the tub. 

Cliincse-blue, when it can be got, is the bc^, and onlj 
costs one shilling an ounce, with three cents for the acid, 
will give better satisfaction tlian fifty cents worth of tho 
common bluing. This amount has now lasted my famil.v 
over a year 

bO APS— Soft Soap— For Half tije Expense and Oni 
Fourth the Trouble of the Old Way — Take v/hite-lmr sot j 
4 lbs., cut it tine and dissolve, by heating in soft water 4 gaL; 
adding sal-soda 1 lb. When all is dissolved and well mixed it 
is done. 

Yellow soap does very well, but Colgate's wliit^, is said 
to be the best. But our " White Hard Soap*' is the same 
kind. 

This soap can be made thicker or more thin, by using more 
or less water, as you may think best after once making it. 
Even in common soft soap, if this amount of sal-soda is put 
into that number of gallons, washing will be done much 
easier, and the soap will more than compensate for the ex 
pcnse and trouble of the addition. 

2. German Erasi\te, or Yellow Soap. — Tallow and sal-soda, 
of each 112 lbs.; rosin 56 lbs.; stone lime 28 lbs.; palm-oil 8 
lbs.; soft water 28 gals.; or far small qumitiiies^ tallow and saJ- 
soda, of each 1 lb. ; rosin 7 ozs. ; stone lime 4 ozs. ; palm-oil I 
oz. ; soft water 1 qt. 

Put soda, lime, and water into a kettle and boil, stirring 
well ; then let it settle and pour oif the lye. In another 
kettle, melt the tallow, rosin and palm-oil ; having it hot, 
the lye being alse boiling hot ; mix all together stirring 
well, and the work is done. 

3. Hard Soap, with Lard. — Sal-soda and lard, of each 6 lbs. 
stone lime 3 lbs. ; soft water 4 gals. ; dissolve the lime and soda 
in the water, by boiling, stirring, settling and pouring oif; then 
return to the kettle (brass or copper) and add the lard and boii 
until it becomes soap ; then pour into a dish or moulds, and 
when cold, cut it into bars and let it dry. 

This recipe was obtained by finding an over-coat with it 
in the pocket, and also a piece of the soap ; the man kept it 
with him, as it irritated his salt- rheum so much less thao 
other soaps. It has proved valuable for washing gene) ally ; 



MISCELLANEOUS DEPABTMENT. 305 

and also for shaving purposes. It would be better thau 
half the toilet soaps sold, if an ounce or two of sassafras 
oil was stirred into this amount ; or a little of the soap 
might be put in a separate dish, putting in a little of the 
oil, to correspond with the quantity of soap. 

4. White Hard Soap, with Tallow. — Fresh slacked lime, 
aal-soda, and tallow, of each 2 lbs. ; dissolve the soda in 1 gal. 
Doiling soft water ; now mix in the lime, stirring occasionally 
or a few hours ; after which let it settle, pouring off the clear 

li(j[Uor and boiling the tallow therein until it is all dissolved ; 
cool it in a flat ]>ox or pan, and cut into bars, or cakes, as pre 
ferred. 

It can be flavored with sassafras oil, as the last, by stirring 
it in when cool ; it can be colored also if desired as men- 
tioned in the " Variegated Toilet Soap/^ 

When any form of soda is used in making soap, it is 
necessary to use lime to give it causticity ; or, in other 
words, to make it caustic ; which gives it much greater pow- 
er upon the grease, by removing the carbonic acid ; hence 
the benefit of putting lime in the bottom of a leach when 
making soap from common ashes. 

5. Transparent Soap. — Take nice yellow bar soap 6 lbs.; 
cut it thin and put into a brass, tin, or copper kettle, with alco- 
Viol I gal.; heating gradually over a slow tire, stirring until all is 
dissolved ; then add an ouiice of sassafras essence, and stir untr. 
well mixed ; now pour into pans about 1^ inches deep and when 
cold, cut into square bars, the length or width of the pan, as 
desired. 

This gives you a nice toilet soap for a trifling expense, 
and when fully dry it is very transparent. 

6. One Hundred Pounds op Good Soap for $1.30. — Take 
potash 6 lbs., 75 cts. ; lard 4 lbs., 50 cts. ; rosin J lb., 5 cts. 

Beat up the rosin, mix all together, and set aside for five 
days ; then put the whole into a ten gallon cask of warni 
water, and stir twice a day for ten days ; at the expiration 
of which time you will have one hundred pounds of excel- 
lent soap. ! 

,7. Chemical Soft Soap. — J. Hamilton, an English 
gentleman, and proprietor of the Eagle Hotel, Aurora, In- 
diana, makes his soap for house use, as follows : 

Take grease 8 lbs. ; caustic soda 8 lbs. ; sal-soda 1 lb. ; melt 
♦^he grease in a kettle, melt the sodas in soft water 4 gals., and pour 

— DR CUASE's recipes. 



306 DR. CHASE'S EECIPE8. 

all into a barrel holding 40 gals, and fill up with soft watei, and 
the labor is done. 

When the caustic soda cannot be obtained of soap-makers, 
you will make it by taking soda-ash and fresh slacked lime, 
of each eight pounds ; dissolving them in the water with 
the sal-soda, and when settled, pouring oflf the clear liquid 
as in the " White Hard Soap with Tallow." 

8. Soap without Heat. — Mr. Tomilson, writing to 
Judge Buel, says : 

" My wife has no trouble about soap. The grease is put into 
a cask, and strong lye added. During the year, as the fat in- 
creases, more lye is stirred in ; and occasionally stirred with a 
stick that is kept in it. By the time the cask is full, the soap is 
made for use." 

There is no mistake about this manner of making soap. 
The only object of boiling is to increase the strength of 
weak lye and hasten the process. 

9. Windsor, oe Toilet Soap. — Cut some new, white bar soap 
into thin slices, melt it over a slow fire, and scent it with oil of 
caraway; when perfectly dissolved, pour it into a mould and 
et it remain a week, then cut it into such sized squares as you 

may require. 

10. Variegated Toilet Soap.— Soft water 3 qts. ; nice white 
bar soap 3 lbs. ; sal-soda 2 ozs. ; Chinese vermilion, and CIl'- 
nese blue, of each, as much as will lie on a 5-cent piece ; oil of 
sassafras ^ oz. 

Shave the soap fine, and put it into the water as it begins 
to boil ; when dissolved, set it from the fire ; take out a 
cup of the soap and stir in the vermilion ; take out another 
cup of the soap and stir in the blue ; then pour in one of 
the cups and give two or three turns only with the stirring 
stick ; then put in the other in the same way ; and finally 
pour into a suitable box ; and when cold it can be cut into 
bars 'j or it can be run in moulds, if desired ; it will be- 
come hard in a short time ; giving most excellent satisfac- 
tion. If stirred thoroughly, after putting in the colors, il 
would be all of a mixed color ; but giving it only two or 
three turns, leaves it in streaks, most beautiful. 

Soap manufacturers generally use soda, in preference to 
wood-a.shes, because less troublesome ; and to make it more 
caustic, or, in other words, to absorb the carbon ic-acid-iras, 
they must put about pound for pound of receutly slacked 



MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTxMENT. 307 

lime with soda-ash, or sal-soda ; dissolving by lieat or stir- 
ring ; or by both ; using sufficient water to make the lye 
support a Iresh lain egg, and drawing it off clear of the lime 
sediment. Thirteen hundred pounds of thetaiiow, ortheie- 
abouts, with the lye, makes one ton of white soap ; and yel- 
low soap, by using ten hundred of tallow and luiec hundred 
and fifty of yellow rosiu, for each ton, boiling ^itlt the lye 
until they unite ; then pouring into frames, luaue fco fit one 
upon another, to cool and harden ; finally uiKing off ono 
Hrame at a time, and with a wire, having a handle at each 
end to draw it with, cut into slices, then bdid, and cording 
up, as wood, to dry. If wood-ashes are used, plenty of lime 
must be put into the bottom of the leach. 

TALLOW CANDLES— For Sumxer Use.— Most 
tallow, in summer, is more or less soft and often quite yel- 
low, to avoid both : 

Take your tallow and put a little bees-wax with it, especially 
tt your bees-wax is dark and not fit to sell ; put into a suitable 
kettle, adding weak lye and gently boil, an hour or two each day 
for 2 days, stirring and skimming well ; each morning cutting it 
out and scraping off the bottom which is soft, adding fresh lye 
(be sure it is not too strong) 1 or 2, or 3. gals,, according to the 
amount of tallow. The third morning use water in which alum 
and saltpetre is dissolved, at the rate of 1 lb. each, for 30 lbs. of 
♦.allow ; then simmer, stir, and skim again ; let cool, and you can 
take it off tlie w^ater for use. 

They may be dipped or run in moulds ; for dipping, allow 
two pounds for each dozen candles. 

Saltpetre and alum are said to harden lard for candles ; 
but it can be placed amongst the humbugs of the day 
But I will give you a plan which is a little shorter for hard- 
ening tallow ; either will work well, take your choice : 

2 Tatlow— To Cleanse and BLEAcn.— Dissolve alum 5 lbs., 
in water 10 gals., by boiling; and when it is all dissolved, add 
tallow 20 lbs. ; continue the boiling for an hour, constantly stir 
ring and skimming ; when sufficiently cool to allow it, strain 
through thick muslin ; then set aside to harden ; when taken 
ft cm the water, lay it by for a short time to drip. 

Dip or mould, as you please, not expecting them to '^run'' 
in summer nor " crack^' in winter. They will also bura 
very brilliantly, at which, however, you will not be sur- 
prised when you consider the amount of filth thrown off in 
cleansing. 



308 DR. chase's recipes. 

FENCE POSTS— To Prevent Rotting.— A corns- 

pondent of the American Ayricnlturalht says : 

*' I think it would be well to call the attention of fiirmers to 
tlie use of coal-tar as a paint. The tar produced in coal gas- 
works is extensively used in England for painting fences, out 
buildings, &c. ; and is being introduced in this country, also. It 
never alters by exposure to the weather ; and one or' two gooa 
coats will last for many years. It is the cheapest and best blacs 
paint that can be used. Our buildings are painted with it ; all 
our apparatus also ; and even the wrought-iron pii)e we place in 
the ground is coated with it. I think if its advantages were 
fully known, it would be generally used throughout the United 
States. The Government soak the brick used in building the 
fort at Throg^s Neck in this tar, which renders them impervious 
to water ; and posts painted with it are protected from rot, when 
in the ground, as effectually as if they had been charred." 

I know this tar is much more effectual than charring, and 
is not one-tenth the trouble. There are posts near this city, 
which have now been set over ten years, and yet no appear- 
ance of decay. The coating is still perfect also. 

The only objection to it as a paint above ground, is it3 
offensive smell, from the heat of the sun. 

No persons should allow themselves to set a single post 
without its application, and farmers who are putting out 
much fence, cannot possibly be so short-sighted as to neg- 
lect it after it once comes to their notice. 

It is doubly important to Railroad-Companies from the 
fact that these roads run through the most level portions of 
country, and consequently the most swampy and wet, there- 
Pore fence posts are the more liable to rot. The mode of 
application is as follows : 

Have a large iron kettle so arranged that you can make and 
keep the tar hot, then, after having removed the bark, if any, 
fifit the end of the post into the tar ; and if the tar is not suffi- 
ciently deep to take the post into it as far as you wish to tar it 
have a swab of cloth tied upon a broom-handle or other stick, 
and swab it up at least 6 to 10 inches above the ground-line 
when the post is set ; then lift up the post, letting it drip a mo 
ment, and lay it away upon rails or poles placed for that pur 
pose, not allowing them to touch each other until dry. 

Two men will tar about five hundred posts in one day J 
and one barrel of tar will be sufficient for that number 
Who then will hesitate to adopt its use if especially when 
the tar can be purchased at the gas-works for about two dol- 
•ars per barrel 



MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 309 

HEATS— TO PRESERVE- Beef— To Pickle for Long 
Keeping. — First, thoroiiglily rub salt into it and let it remain 
in bulk for 24 hours to draw off the blood. Second, take it up 
letting it drain, and pack as desired. Third, have ready a 
pickle prepared as follows : — For ever}^ 100 lbs. of beef, use 7 lbs. 
Of salt ; saltpetre and cayenne pepper, of each 1 oz.; molasses 1 
qc, and soft water 8 gals.; boil and skim well; and when cold 
pour it over the beef. 

This amount will cover one hundred pounds, if it ha 
Otjon properly packed. I have found persons who use noth 
mg but salt with the water, and putting on hot, scalding 
again at the end of three weeks and putting on hot again. 
The only object claimed ior putting the brine on the meat 
while hot, is, that it hardens the surface, which retains tho 
■;uices, instead of drawing them off. 

2. The Michigan Farmer's Method.— Is, *' for each 100 lbs. 
of beef, use salt 5 lbs. ; saltpetre i oz. ; brown sugar 1 lb.; dis- 
solve in sufficient water to cover the meat — two weeks after take 
up, drain — throw away the brine — make more the same as first, 
it will keep the season through — when to be boiled for eating, 
put into boiling water — for soups into cold watt3r." 

I claim a preference for the first plan, of drawing off 
the blood before pickling, as saving labor ; and that tho 
cayenne and saltpetre improves the flavor and helps preserve; 
and that boiling and skimming cleanse the brine very much. 
Of late years I pursue the following : 

3. Beef — To Pickke for Winter or Present Use, and 
^on Drying. — Cut your beef into sizable pieces, sprinkle a little 
salt upon the bottom of the barrel only, then pack your beef 
without salt amongst it, and when packed pour over it a briiiv 
made by dissolving G lbs. of salt for each 100 lbs. of beef in just 
euflicient cold water to handsomely cover it. 

You will find that you can cut and fry as nice as fresh, 
for a long time ; just right for boiling, also ; and when it 
gets a little too salt for frying, you can freshen it nearly aa 
nicely as pork, for frying purposes, or you can boil of it, 
then make a stew for breakfast, very nice indeed. By the 
other plan it soon becomes too salt for eating, and the juices 
cire drawn off by the salt. In three weeks, perhaps a littie 
less, such pieces as are designed for drying will be ready to 
hang up, by soaking over night to remove the salt from the 
outride. Do not be afraid of this way ; for it is very nice 
for winter and drying purposes; but if any ia left until 



310 DR. chase's recipes. 

warm weather, throw away this brine, put salt amongst whal 
is left and cover with the first brine, and all is right for 
long keeping. 

4. Mutton Hams— To Pickle for Drying.— First take 
weak brine and put the hams into it for 2 days, then pour o3 
and apply the following, and let it remain on from 2 to 3 weeks 
according to size : For each 100 lbs.; take salt 6 lbs. ; saltpetre 1 
oz. ; saleratus 2 ozs. ; molasses 1 pt. ; water 6 gals., will cove^ 
these if closely packed. 

The saleratus keeps the mutton from becoming too hard; 

5. Curing, Smoking, and Keeping Hams. — Kosr 
Cottage, Muncie, Ind., Nov. 26th, 1859 : I noticed an 
article in the Gazette of yesterday, headed as above, from 
the pen of Mr. Alexander Brooks, taken from the Rural 
New Yorker^ and as I have some useful experience in that 
line, I desire to suggest my plan for curing and keeping : 

To a cask of hams, say from 25 to 30, after having packed 
them closely and sprinkled tliem slightly with salt, 1 let tiiem lie 
thus for 3 days ; jthen make a brine sufficient to cover them, by 
putting salt into clear water, making it strong enough to bear 
up a sound e?g or potatoe. I then add i lb. of saltpetre, and a 
gallon of molasses; let them lie in the brine for 6 weeks — they 
are then exactly right. I then take them up and let them drain ; 
then while damp, rub the flesh side and the end of the leg with 
finel}^ pulverized black, red, or cayenne pepper ; let it be as fine 
AS dust, and dust every part of the flesh side, tlien hang them 
ip and smoke. You may leave them hanging in the smoke- 
house or other cool place where the rats cannot reach tliem, as they 
are perfectly safe from all insects; and will be a dish flt for a 
i'rince, or an American citizen, which is better. 
Respectfully yours, 

Tito's. J. Sample. 

I find that Mr. Sample uses twice as mucli saltpetre and 
double the time, for my eating, but perhaps not for general 
market. 

If Grocers will take this plan for preparing their hams 
and shoulders, there will be no need of sacking; and such 
as they buy in during the summer should recieve a coat of 
pepper immediately, to prevent annoyance from flies 

6. T. E. Hamilton's Maryland Method. — The 
hams of Maryland and Virginia have long enjoyed a wide 
celebrity. At one of the exliibitions of the Maryland State 
Agricuhnral Society, four premiums were awarded foi 



MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 311 

hams. The one which took the first premium, was cureJ 
by Mr. T. E. Hamilton, from the following recipe : 

" To every 100 lbs. take best coarse salt 8 lbs. ; saltpetre 2 ozs ; 
brown sugiV 2 lbs. ; potash 1^ ozs. ; and water 4 gals. Mix th( 
above, and pour the brine over the meat, after it has lain in the 
tub for some 2 days. Let the hams remain G weeks in the brine 
and then dry several days before smoking. I have generallj 
liad the meat rubbed with fine salt, w hen it is packed dowm." 

The meat should be perfectly cool before packing. The 
potash keeps it from drying up and becoming hard. 

7. PoiiK— To Have Fresh from Winter Killing, fob 
Summer Frying. — Take pork w^hen killed in the early part of 
the winter, and let it lay in pickle about a w^eek or 10 days; oi 
until just sufficiently salted to be palatable ; then slice it up and 
fry it about half or two-thirds as much as you would for pres- 
ent eating ; now lay it away in its ow^n grease, in jars properly 
covered, in a cool place, as you would lard. 

When desired, in spring or summer, to have fresh pork, 
take out what you wish and re-fry suitable for eating, and 
you have it as nice as can be imagined. Try a jar of it, and 
know that some things can be done as well as others. It is 
equally applicable to hams and shoulders, and I have no 
doubt it will work as well upon beef, using lard sufficient 
to cover it. So well satisfied am I of it that I have put in 
beef-steak, this spring, with my fresh ham, in frying foi 
Bummer use. It works upon the principle of canning fruits 
io exclude the air. I put in no bone. 

8. Salt Pork for Frying — Nearly Equal to 
Fresil — For the benefit of thoaa who are obliged to use 
considerable salt pork, the following method much improves 
it for frying : 

Cut as many slices as may be needed ; if for breakfast, the 
uight previous, and soak till morning in a quart or two of milk 
cind water, about one-half milk, skimmed-milk, sour milk, or 
buttermilk ; — rinse till the water is clear and then Ay. It is 
nearly or quite as nice as fresh pork, — both the fai and lean 
parts. 

Occasionally I like to have this rolled in corn meal before 
frying, as it makes such a nice imitation of fresh fish. 

9. Fresh Meat— To Keep a Week or Two, in Summer.— 
Farmers or others, living at a distance from butchers, can keep 
fresh meat very nicely, for a week or two, by putting it into sour 
milk, or butter-milk, placing it in a cool cellar. The bone or fat 
aeed not be removed. 

llinse well when used. 



312 DR. chase's recipes. 

10. Smoked Meat — To Preserve for Years, or Fon 
Sea Voyages. — How often are we disappointed in our hopes 
of having sweet hams during the summer ? After carefully 
curing and smoking, and sewing them up in bags, and white- 
washing them ; we often find that either the fly has com- 
menced a family in our hams, or that the choice parts around 
the bone are tainted, and the whole spoiled. 

Now this can be easily avoided, by packing them in pulvei 
ized charcoal. !No matter how hot the w^eather, nor how thick 
the flies ; hams will keep, as sweet as wlien packed, foi years. 
Tiie preservative quality of charcoal will keep them till charcoal 
decays ; or sufficiently long to have accompanied Cook ihree 
times around the world. 

11. The Rural New Yorker's Method.— It says : '' In the 
Sprii'g, cut the smoked ham in slices, fry till partly done, pack 
in a flt'me jar alternate layers of ham and gravy. If the Lam 
should be very lean, use lard for gravy. Be sure and fry the 
ham iL the lard, so that it will be well seasoned. When wanted 
for use, take up, finish frying, and it is ready for the table.'* 

The only trouble is, that we can^t keep it half loru> 
enough, it is so good and handy. 

12. The New England Farmer's ^' Saving his 
Bacon.'' — About a couple of years ago, we were enter- 
tained, at the house of a friend, with a dinner of eggs and 
bacon. We complimented our host on the superior quality 
of his bacon; and were curious to inquire the way to like suc- 
cess in the preparation of a dainty article of diet, though one 
chat is better fitted for the palate of an epicure than for the 
■ stomach of a dyspeptic. To our surprise we were informed 
that that portion of our meul was cooked eight months 
before. 

Upon asking for an explanation, he stated that it was his 
practice to slice and fiy his bacon immediately on its being 
cured, an^ then pack it in its own fat. When occasion came 
for using it, the slices, slightly re-fried, liave all the freshness 
and flavor of new bacon just prepared. By this precaution, out 
friend always succeeded in " Saving his bacon," fresh and sweet, 
through the hottest of weather. — New England Faimier. 

I have no doubt but what it will do as well to pack meats 

fried in this way, in tubs or barrels as in jars ; but I rather 

prefer covered jars, putting a couple of thicknesses of cloth 

over the jar before putting on the cover; placed in a cooi 

cellar. 



MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 3^3 

[ also find it necessary to put in lard occasionally as you 
tre frying, as there is not generally enough brought out by 
the trying to fill the crevices between the slices, which mu«i* 
be. filled/^ 

CANXTNG FRUITS— Peaches and Peaks.— After paring 
and coring, put amongst tliem sufficient sugar to make them 
p-ahilable tor present eating, — about 3 to 4 lbs. only for each 
bushel ; let them stand a while to dissolve the sugar, not using 
any water ; then heat to a boil, and continue the boiling, with 
care, from 20 to 30 minutes ; or sufficiently long to heat through 
t\iiich expels the air. 

Have ready a kettle of hot water, into which dip the can 
long enough to heat it ; then fill in the fruit while hot, 
corking it immediately, and dip the end of the cork int^ 
the '' Cement for Canning Fruits/' When cold it is bes 
to dip the second time to make sure that no air holes are 
left which would spoil the fruit. All canned fruits are to 
be kept in a very cool cellar. 

We have, yesterday and to-day, been eating peaches put 
ap in this way, two years ago, which were very nice indeed. 
See " Peaches, To Peel.'^ 

3. Berkies, Plums, Cherries, &c. — Raspberries, blackber- 
nes, whortle])erries, currants, cherries, and plums, need not be 
boiled over 10 to 15 minutes ; using sugar to make palatable, in 
dll cases; as it must be put in some time, and it helps to pre- 
fieive the fruit. 

Ihey require the same care in heating cans, &c., as 
above, for peaches. 

3. Strawberries.— For strawberries, put sugar J lb. for each 
li). of berries ; and proceed as for berries above. 

Strawberries are go juicy, and have such a tendency to 
fermentation, that it is almost impossible to keep them I 
have found it absolutely so, until I adopted the plan of 
iising the amount of sugar above named ; if others can io 
with less, they can benefit the public by telling me how 
they do it. 

5. Tomatoes. — For tomatoes, scald and peel them as for other 
cookmg; then scald, or rather boil for about 15 minutes only, 
auxi can as above. 

Or what I think best, is to use a little salt, and put them 
into ha'f-gallon jugs ; for we want them in too great quanti- 
ti<^s tC' jtop on a few glass jars, such as we use for othei 



314 DR. chase's recipes. 

fruits; as for tin cans, I never use them; if you do Uie 
tin cans for tomatoes it will not do to use salt with them, aa 
H has a tendency to cause rust. 

6. Cement for Cannlng Fruits.— Rosin 1 lb. ; lard, tallow 
and bees-wax, of each 1 oz. 

Melt and stir together ; and have it hot, ready to dip into, 
when canning. 

7. Rural New Yorker's Method. — The editor says : 

From four years experience with, not only strawberries, but 
peaches, cherries, raspberries, pine-apples, &c., without losing a 
single jar, the flavor being also perfect: Use only self-sealing 
glass jars. Put into a porcelain preserving kettle, enough to HQ 
two, quart jars; sprinkle on sugar ^ lb.; place over a slow fire 
and heat through, not cooked. While the fruit is heating, keep 
the jars filled with hot water. Fill up to the brim, and seal im- 
mediately. 

As it cools a vacuum is formed which prevents bursting. 
In this way every kind of fruit will retain its flavor. Some- 
times a thick leathery mould form, on the top — if so, all the 

better. 

CATCHUP— Tomato Catchup.— Take perfectly ripe 
tomatoes ^ bushel; wash them clean and break to pieces; then 
put over the fire and let them come to a boil, and remove from 
the fire ; when they are sufliciently cool to allow your hands in 
them, rub through a wire sieve ; and to what goes through, add 
salt 2 tea-cups ; allspice and cloves, of each, ground, 1 tea-cup ; 
best vinegar 1 qt. Put onto the fire again and cook 1 hour, 
stirring with great care to avoid burning. Bottle and seal for 
use. If too thick when used, put in a little vinegar. If they 
were very juicy they may need boiling over an hour. 

This recipe is from Mrs. Hardy, of the American Hotel, 
Dresden, 0., and is decidedly the best catchup which I h'lve 
ever tasted ; the only fault I have ever heard attributed to 
it was, " I wish we had made more of it.'' ^' We have not 
got half enough of it,'' &c. But there are those who can- 
not use tomatoes in any shape ; such persons will, undoubt- 
edly like the following : 

2. Currant Catchup. — Nice fully ripe currants 4 lbs. ; sugar 
1^ lbs.; cinnamon, ground 1 table-spoon ; salt, with ground clovea 
and pepper, of each 1 tea-spoon ; vinegar 1 pt. 

Stew the currants and sugar until quite thick ; then add 
the other ingredients, and bottle for use. 



MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 315 

PMESER\'ES — Tomato Preserves. — As some per- 
sons will have preserves, I give them the plan of making 
the most healthy of any in use : 

Take ripe, scalded and peeled tomatoes 13 lbs. ; nice, scaldina 
hot moksses 1 gal. ; pour the molasses upon them and let stan3 
12 hours ; then boil until they are properly cooked ; now skim 
out tJie tomatoes, but continue boiling the syrup until quite 
thick ; then pour again upon the tomatoes and put away as other 
preserves. A table-spoon of ginger tied up in a bit of cloth and 
boiled in them, gives a nice flavor ; or the extracts can be used ; 
or lemon peel, as preferred — if sugar is used, pound for pound is 
the amount. 

But I prefer to put them, or any other fruit-, into jugs, 
cans, or bottles, which retains the natural flavor and does 
not injure the stomach, which all preserves do, to a greater 
or less extent. Yet I give you another, because it does so 
nicely in place of citron, in cakes. 

2. PiiESERYED Water-Melon in Place op Citron, for 
Cakes. — The harder part of water-melon, next the skin, made 
into preserves with sugar, equal weights ; cooking down the 
syrup rather more than ior common use, causes it to granulate, 
like citron, which is kept for sale. 

This chopped fine, as citron, makes an excellent substi- 
tute for that article ; and for very much less cost. Call in 
the neighbors, to help eat about a dozen good sized melons, 
ftnd you have outside enough for the experiment ; and if 
the Doctor is near he will help without a fee. They are 
Dice, also, in mince-pies in place of raisins. 

CURRANTS— To Dry with Sugar.— Take fully ripe cur 
rants, stemmed, 5 lbs.; sugar 1 lb.; put into a brass kettle, stir- 
ring at first, then as the currants boil up to the top, skim them 
oil"; boil down the juicy syrup until quite thick and pour it over 
the currants, mixing well; then place on suitable dishes, and 
dry them by placing in a low box over which you can place 
musketo-bar, to keej' away flies. 

When properly dried, put in jars and tie paper over them. 
Put cold water upon them and stew as other fruit for eating 
or pie-making, adding more sugar if desired. 

TIN- WARE— To Mend by tue Heat of a Candle.— Take 
a vial about two-thirds full of muriatic acid, and put into it, little 
bits of sheet zinc, as long as it dissolves them ; then put in a 
crumb of sal-ammoniac and fill up with water, and it is ready to 
use. 

With the cork of the vial wet the place to be mended. 



JR. CHAJ3E 8 KECiTES. 

with tiie preparatiou ; then put a piece of Bheet zinc ove\ 
the hole and hold a lighted candle or spirit lamp under the 
place, which melts the solder on the tin and causes the zinc 
to adhere without further trouble. Wet the zinc also with 
the solution. Or a little solder may be put on in place of 
the zinc, or with the zinc. 

WATER FILTER— Home-Made.— Rainwater is mucL 
healthier than hard water as a beverage : and the ful lowing 
will be found an easy and cheap way to fit it for drinking 
purposes : 

Have an oak tub made, holding from half, to a barrel, accord- 
ing to the amount of water needed in the family; let it stand en 
end, with a faucet near the bottom; or, I prefer a hole throug-h 
the bottom, near the front side, with a tube in it which prevents 
the water from rotting the outside of the tub ; then put clenn 
pebbles 3 or 4 inches in thickness over the bottom of the tuo ; 
now have charcoal pulverized to the size of small peas (tL:?t 
made from hard maple is best) and put in half a bushel or so it 
a time ; pound it down quite firmly, then put in more and pou id 
again until the tub is filled to within 8 inches of the top; a^d 
again put on 2 inches more of pebbles; then put a piece of ck ^d 
wliite flannel over the whole top as a strainer. 

The flannel can be washed occasionally, to remove I \e 
impurities collected from the water, and it might be weh to 
put a flannel between the pebbles and flannel at the boti m 
also. When the charcoal becomes foul, it can be renev ed 
as before, but will work a whole season without renewLig. 
Put on your water freely until it becomes clear ; when yoi. 
will be as well satisfied as you would be if it run throng a a 
patent filter, costing six times as much as this. 

A large jar to hold the filtered water can be set in an ice- 
box if preferred ; or an occasional piece of ice can bt put 
in the water ; but if the filter is set in the cellar, *s it 
sliould be, the water will be sufficiently cool for ht ilth. 
This makes a good cider filter, also, first straining the ider 
hrough cotton to free it from the coarsest pomace. 

TIRE — To Keep on the Wheel. — A correspond Ji of 
the Southern Planter says : " I ironed a wagon some years 
ago for my own use, and before putting on the tires I filled 
the fellies with linseed-oil; and the tires have worn o-at, and 
were never loose. I ironed a buggy for my own use seven 
yeara ago, and the tires are now as tight as when {at on 



MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 317 

My method of filling the fellies with the oil is as follows . 

I use a long, cast iron oil -heater, made for the purpose ; the 
©il is brought to a boiling heat, the wheel is placed on a stick, 
3o as to hang in the oil, each felly an hour, for a common sized 
felly. The timber should be dry, as green timber will not take 
oil. Care should be taken that the oil be not made hotter than 
a boiling heat, in order that the timber be not burnt. Timber 
tilled with oil is not susceptible to water, and is much more du- 
rable.'* 

I wa^ amused some time ago when I told a blacksmith 
how to keep tires tight on wheels, by his telling me it was 
a profitable business to tighten tires ; and the wagon maker 
will say it is profitable to him to make and repair wheels — 
but what will the farmer, who supports the wheel-wright 
and the blacksmith say? The greatest good to the greatest 
number, is my motto. 

WEEDS— To Destroy in Walks.— The following 
method to destroy weeds is pursued at the mint in Paris, 
with good effect : 

Water 10 gals. ; stone lime 20 lbs.; flour of sulphur 2 lbs 
Boil in an iron kettle ; after settling, the clear part is to be 
poured olf and sprinkled, freely, upon the weedy walks. 

Care must be taken, for it will destroy weeds ; and a** 
certainly destroy edging and border flowers, if sprinkled on 
them. 

CEMENTS — Cement for China, &c., which Stands Firb 
AND Water. — With a small camePs-hair brush, rub the broken 
edgt^ viith a little carriage oil-varnish. 

If neatly put together, the fracture will hardly be per 
ceptlble, and when thoroughly dry, will stand both fire and 
watei . 

2. Russian Cement. — Much is said about cements ; but 
there is probably nothing so white and clear, and certainly 
nothing better than he following : 

Russian isinglass dissolved in pure soft water, snow water is 
besfe ; for it takes 12 hours to soften it by soaking in pure soft 
w^ater, then considerable heat to dissolve it ; after which it is ap- 
plicable to statuary, china, glass, alabaster, &c., &c. 

In all cements the pieces must be secured until dry. It 
i^ easy to reason that if twelve to fifteen hours are required 
ia soften this isinglass that no disl -washing will ever efi*ect 



818 DR. chase's recipes. 

it. You may judge from the price whether you get the 
Russian, for thirty-seven cents per ounce, is as low as the 
genuine article can be purchased in small quantities, whilst 
the common, bear a price of only from ten to tweWe cents^ 
ind even less. 

3. Cement, Cheap and Valuable. — A durable cement ia 
made by burning oyster-sliells and pulverizing the lime from 
them very fine ; tlien mixing it with white of agg to a thick 
paste and applying it to the china or glass, and securing the 
pieces together until dry. 

When it is dry, it takes a very long soaking for it to become 
soft again. I have lifted thirty pounds by the stem of a 
wine-glass which had been broken, and mended with this 
cement. Common lime will do, but it is not so good ; either 
should be fresh burned, and only mix what is needed, for 
when once dry you cannot soften it. 

4. Cement — Water-Proof, for Cloth or Belting. — 
Take ale 1 pt. ; best Russia isinglass 2 ozs. ; put them into a com- 
mon glue kettle and boil until the isinglass is dissolved ; then 
add 4 ozs. of the best common glue, and dissolve it with the 
other; then slowly add l^ozs. of boiled linseed-oil, stirring all 
the time while adding, and until well mixed. When cold it will 
resemble India-rubber. When you wish to use this, dissolve 
what you need in a suitable quantity of ale to have the consis- 
tence of thick glue. It is applicable for earthenware, china, 
glass, or leather ; for harness ; bands for machinery ; cloth belts 
for cracker machines for bakers, &c., &c. If for leather, shave 
off as it for sewing, apply the cement with a brush while hot^ 
laying a weight to keep each joint firmly for G to 10 hoars, oj 
over night. 

This cement will supersede ^' Spaulding's Prepared Glue,'' 
and all the white cements you can scare up, if you use 
good articles to make it of, — not less than thirty or forty 
cents a pound for common glue, and three shillings pei 
ounce for the llussian isinglass; but the expense of thi^ 
will cause it only to be used when dampness is to be con- 
tended with. 

If you have not a glue kettle, take an oyster can ana 
punch some holes through the top of it, putting in a string 
to suspend it on a stick in a common kettle of boiling wa- 
ter, and keep it boiling in that way. 

5. Cement, or Furniture Glue, for House Use. — To 
mend marble, wood, glass, china and ornamental ware— take 
water 1 gal. ; nice glue 3 lbs. • white lead 4 ozs. ; whisky 3 qta. 



MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 319 

Mil by dissolving the glue in the water ; remove froni 
the firo and stir in the white lead, then add the \rhisky, 
which keeps it fluid, except in the coldest weather. Yv arm 
and stir it up when applied. 

6. Whi'ie Cement.— Take white (fish) glue, 1 lb. 10 oz3. ; dr} 
wliite lead 6 ozs. ; soft water 3 pts. ; alcohol 1 pt. 

Dissolve the glue by putting it into a tin kettle, or di»h^ 
soDtaiaiDg the water, and set this dish into a kettle of wa- 
ter, to prevent the glue from being burned ; when the glue 
»s all dissol ^ed, put in the lead and stir and boil until all is 
thoroughly mixed ; remove from the fire, and, when coo^ 
enough to bottle, add the alcohol, and bottle while it is yet 
\varm, keeping it corked. This last recipe has been sold 
about the country for from twenty-five cents to five dollars, 
and one man gave a horse for it. 

7. GsRMAN Cement. — Two measures of litharge, and 1 each 
of unslacked liine and Hint glass; each to be pulverized scpa- 
ratel}^ before mixing ; then to use it, wet it up with old drying-oil. 

The Germans use it for glass and china ware only. Wa- 
*er hardens it instead of softening. 

8. ScRAP-EooK Paste, or Cement. — A piece of common 
tjlue, 2 square inches ; dissolve it in water, adding as much pul- 
verized alum, in weight, as of the glue ; now mix flour ^ tea- 
spoon in a little water; stir it in and boil. When nearly cool 
stir in oil of lavender 2 tea-spoons. 

This should make a pint of paste, which will keep a long 
time if tightly covered when not in use. 

Cement- Pre VKNTiNQ Leaks about Chimneys, &c. — Dry 

eand 1 pt. ; ashes 2 pts. ; clay dried and pulverized 8 pts. ; all to 
DC pulverized and mixed into a paste with linseed-oil. 

Apply it while soft, as desired, and when it becomes hard, 
water will have no efiect upon it. It may be used for walks, 
ind I think it would do well in cisterns, and on roofs, c^e. 

MAGIC PAPER.— Used to Transfer Figures in Em- 

HHOIDERY, OR IMPRESSIONS OF LEAVES FOR llEHBARfUMS,— 

Take lard-oil, or sweet-oil, mixed to the consistence of cream^ 
v/ith either of the following paints, the color of which is desired : 
Pra^sian blue, lamp-black, VenlLian red or chrome green, either 
of which should be rubbed, with a knife on a plate or stone un- 
til rimootli. Use rather thin, but lirm paper; put on with a 
ep«juge and wipe off as dry as convenient; then lay them be- 
tween uncolored paper, or between newspapers, and press by 
laymg books or some other flat substance upon them, until tha 
furplua oil is absorbed, when it is ready for use. 



820 DK. chase's recipes. 

Directions. — For taking off pattcras of embroidery 
place a piece of thin paper over tlie embroidery to prevent 
soiiing; then lay on the magic paper, and put on the ulotb 
you wish to take the copy on, to embroider; pin fast, and 
rub over with a spoon handle ; and every part of the raised 
tigure will show upon the plain cloth. To take impressions 
of leaves on paper, place the leaf between two sheets of 
this paper, and rub over it hard, then take the leaf out and 
place it between two sheets of white paper; rub again, and 
you will have a beautiiul impression of both sides of the 
leaf or flower. Persons traveling without pen or ink, can 
write with a sharp stick, placing a sheet of this papv^r 
over a sheet of white paper. 

RA.T DESTROYERS— Rat Exteuminatou.— Flour 3 lbs; 
water onl}' Riilticient to make it into a tliick paste ; then dissolve, 
phosphorus I oz., in butter 1^ oz., b}' heat. Mix. 

This you will leave, thickly spread on bread, where rats 
can get at it ; or make into balls, which is preferable, cov- 
ered or rolled with sugar. If it is desired to sell this article 
and you wish to color to hide its coiu position, work into ii 
pulverized turmeric 2 oz. Or ! 

3. Take warm water 1 qt.; lard 2 lbs.; pliosphorus 1 oz. Mix, 
and thicken with tiour. 

It is found best to make only in small quantities, as 
the phosphorus loses its power by exposure. Some will ob- 
ject to killing rats about the house ; but I had rather s^mcll 
their dead carcasses thau taste their tail-prints, left on 
every thing possible for them to get at, or sutfer loss from 
their ^o.9/A-prints on all things possible for them to devour, 
or destroy. 

3. Death for the Old Sly Rat. — Some rats get so 
cunning that it is almost impossible to overcome their 
shrewdness. 

Then get a few grains of strychnine, having a little fresh leau 
meat bi'oiled ; cut it into small bits, by using a fork to hold it, 
lor if held by the fingers, they will smell them and not eat it ; 
cutting with a sharp penknife ; then cut a little hole into the 
bits, and put in a little of the stiychnine, and close up tlie meat 
together agaii?. 

Put these on a plate where they frequent, but not near 
their holes, laying a piece of paper over the meat ; when 



MISCET.LANEOUS departmp:nt. 321 

the«« are eaten put more, for three or four days, and you 
are soon done mth the wisest of them. 

4 Rats — To DmvE Away Alive.— If you choose to drive 
them away alive, take potash pulverized, and put quite plenty 
of it into all their holes about the house. If the potash is pul- 
veiized and left in the air, it becomes pasty ; then it can be 
daubed on the boards or planks, where they come through into 
rooms. 

They will sooner leave, than be obliged to have a contin- 
ual re-application of this " Doctor Stuff," every time they 
go through their holes. See " Potash to Make.'^ 

5. Scotch snuff, or pulverized cayenne pepper, mixed together, 
or separate ; if freely put into their burrowing-holes, will cer- 
tainly send them off, at a sneezing pace. 

6. Rat Poison — From Sir Humphrey Davy. — A 

tasteless, odorless and infallible rat poison, he says, is made 
as follows : 
*' Mix carbonate of barytes 2 ozs., with grease 1 lb." 
It produces great thirst, consequently water must be set 
by it, for death t^kes place immediately after drinking, not 
giving them time to go back to their holes. I obtained 
this at such a late day, that I have not had opportunity of 
testing it lie sure that no other animal can get at it, 
except rats and mice ; for it is a most deadly poison. 
Should this be found as effectual as recommended, it will 
prove just the thing for rat-killing, as they can oe gathered 
up and carried away, thus avoiding the stench arising from 
their dead carcasses. 

FISH — Art of Catching. — Mix the juice of lovage or smell- 
age, with any kind ot bait, or a few drops of the oil of rhodium. 
India cockle also, (Coculus Indicus,) is sometimes mixed w'ilh 
fiour dough and sprinkled on the surface of still water. This 
intoxicates the fish and makes them turn up, on top of the 
water. Mullein seed, pulverized, and used in place of the India 
stickle is about equal to that article. 

They may be eaten without fear, but this will destroy 
;nany fish. Oil of rhodium is the best plan. 

" It is generally supposed/' says Mr. R. I. Pell, " that 
fish are not possessed of the sense of smell. From the fol- 
lowing experiments I am convinced they are : I placed a 
*2ook, well baited with an angle-worm, enticingly before a 
HjCT'ch weighing one and a half pounds ; he did not take the 

n — OOPV RIC.UT HEClJ'RKr*. 



322 DR. vHASE'S REOirES 

least notice of it. It was withdrawn, and a drop of rkodim. 
brought in contact with it, when it was dropped very care- 
fully several feet behind him ; he immediately turned and 
peized the bait. This experiment was several times repeat- 
ed, with like success. It has been denied that fish haro 
the sense of hearing. I find many varieties very sensitive 
to noise, and by numerous experiments am convinced that 
I heir sense of hearing is acute/^ 

STRxiW AND CHIP HxlTS—To Varnish Black. — Bet^l 

alcohol 4 ozs.; pulverized, black sealing-wax 1 oz.; put thf m into. 
a vial, and put the vial into a warm place, stirring or fcnakin^ 
occasionally, until the wax is dissolved ; apply it when warm 
by means of a soft brush, before the fire or in the sun. 

It gives stiifness to old straw hats or bonnets, aakes a 
beautiful gloss, and resists wet ; if anything else is required^ 
jiLst apply it to small baskets also, and see how nicely they 
will look. 

2. Straw Bonnets — To Colo.r a Beautiful Slate. — First 
soak the bonnet in rather strong warm suds for fifteen minutes, 
Miis is to remove sizing or stiffening ; then rinse in warm water 
o get out the soap; now scald cudbear 1 oz., in sufficient waiei 
o cover the hat or bonnet — work the bonnet in this dye at 180 
.egrees of heat, until you get a light purple ; now have a bucket 
of cold water blued with the extract of indigo, about i oz., and 
work or stir the bonnet in this, until the tint pleases. 

Dry, then rinse out with cold water and dry again, in 
the shade. If you get the purple too deep in shade, tiie 
final slate will be too dark. See '* Extract of Indigo, qi 
Chemic.'' 

STUCCO PLASTERING— For Brick and Gravel Houses. 

— First make up as much mortar as you need for the job, with 
good common lime ; using only f or four-fifths, at most, as much 
lime as needed for common work — the other fourth or fifth is to 
be water-lime ; and not to be put in only as used. Th^ sand 
must be coarse, and free from loam or dirt. 

To prepare the white and colored washes, run ofi" common 
lime enough with hot water, to make a white -wash to go ovei 
the wiiole job. This white- wash is to be colored the tint de- 
sired for the work. Be sure to make color-wash enough at on© 
time, or you will find it hard to get the shades alike ; saving a 
little of the white- wash without color, to pencil the seams, and 
also for specking, as mentioned below. The coUrs used ars 
lamp-black, Spanish-brown, or Venetian-red, as preferred, an-' 
these are cut or dissolved in whisky; then pitting into** 
white-wash to suit 



MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 823 

(fhcn these washes are all prepared, wet np as much of 
ivife mortar as can be put on in 20 to 40 minutes, and mix in the 
fourth or tifth of the cement, and put on as fast as possible ; first 
'J retting the wall very wet with water. Some cement will set in 
W and some in 40 to 50 minutes. When you see the time neces- 
sary for the kind you are using, act accordingly, and only mix 
the cement into as much mortar as your help will put on before 
it sets ; beginning at the top of the wall with your scalfolding 
and working down, which prevents too much specking from tli« 
colors. Have a man to follow right after with a tloat, keeping 
iiie stucco very wet while floating down level and smooth ; and 
Ihe longer it is floated and wet, the better will be the job. ^ven 
after it is floated down well, keep a man wetting it with a brush 
until you get the whole line on, around the house, as the water- 
ifiie must be kept quite wet for some considerable time, to set 
properly. Heed this caution, and if water never gets in he And 
the plastering from bad cornice or leaky roofs, it will neve peel 
oif. When this line of scaflblding is plastered, take oute .ough 
of the color-wash, running it through a sieve, and go over the 
plasteriii^ ; lamp-biack alone gives it a bluish slate color ; if a 
little of the brown is added with the black, it will be a little 
reddish, anO if the red is used without the brown, it will be quite 
red. I prefe. sufiicient of the ])lack only to make a gray stone 
color. A brown, however, looks exceedingly well. If you 
choose, you can nake one-half of the color- wash darker than 
the other — having ^aid it ofl' into blocks resembling stone, by 
means of a straight-edge, and piece of board about half an inch 
thick, paint every other block with the darker wash to represent 
different shades of stone. Some of our best buildings are done 
'm this way, and look weLl. 

Then to give it a granite appearance, take a small paint-brush 
and dip it \nto the white-wash, saved for this purpose ; strike it 
across a hammer-handle so as to throw the specks from the 
brush upon the wall, then the same with black and red. Pencil 
thi3 seai^s with the white-wash, which gives it the appearance 
of mortar, as in real stone- work. 

Now you are ready to move down the scaffold, and go 
vvei the same thing as before. After the colors have been 
dissolved with spirits, they can be reduced with water, or 
what is better for tbem and the color-wash also, is skimmed- 
milk ; and where milk is plenty, it ought to be used ii? 
place of water, for white-wash or color- washes, as it helps to 
resist the weather, and prevents the colors from fading — see 
" P^int, to Make without Lead or OiV' which gives you 
the philosophy of using milk. Speck quite freely with the 
wh^te, then about half as much with the black, and then 
rather fi;ee again with the red. The proportion of Ume, 



321 DR. CllASK'S R-^:(npK^^. 

probably, should not exceed one, to six or seven of sand 
Our University buildings, represented in the frontispiece^ 
except the Laboratory, and Law-building, which have beea 
more recently put up, are finished with it, and also whole 
blocks in the business part of our city 

Frof. Douglass' house is probably the prettiest color of 
ny in the city — an imitation of *' Free-stone," made with 
amp-black, yellow ochre, and a larger proportion of Spanish 
prown. But all will have a preference for some special color ; 
tlien, with a little ingenuity and patience, nearly any coloied 
stone can be imitated. 

GRAVEL HOUSES— To Make— Proportions of 
Lime, Sand, and Gravel. — -It has become quite common 
to put up gravel houses : and many persons are at a great 
loss to know what proportion of materials to use. Various 
proportions hare been proposed ; but frum the fact that the 
philosophy was not explained, no real light was given upon 
tlie subject. 

All that is required to know, is, tliat sand and lime are to be 
nsed in proportion to the size of the gravel, — say for 15 bushels 
ot clean gravel, from the size of peas up to tliat of lien's eggs, 
it will take about 8 bushels of clean sharp sand and 1 of lime to 
till tLe crevices without swelling the bulk of the gravel. If tide 
gravel is coarse, up to 5 b 'shels of sand may ])e required, bat 
the lime will not need to be increased but very little, if any. 
Then the philosopliy of the thing is this- -about 1 to 1^- bushels 
of lime to 15 bushels of gravel, and just f^<MHl enough to fill me 
crevices without increasing the bulk as above mentioned. 

If the gravel is free of dirt, the sand i^lso clean, and the 
weather dry, the walls can be raised one f'>ot each day, if 
you have help to do that amount of labor. 

Some prefer to make the ^^lavel and sand Ivto mortar and 
press it into bricks ; then lay into walls, but the wall must 
be stronger if laid up solid, in board frames, made to raise 
up as required. 

Many persons argue for the eight-square or octatrou house ; 
but I like the square form much the best, carryiui^ .up the 
hall and main partiton walls of the same material, Ihe 
eight square house looks like an old fort, or water tanfe. and 
IS very expensive to finish ; costing much more than tae 
same room with square an, ' "js ; for mechanics cannot put 
up cornice outside, or in, in jss than double the time rtt» 
quired for making the common square mitre. 



MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 325 

jProf. Winchell, of the University, and State Geologist. 
ixL this city, has put up one of the octagons which looka 
weilj however, for the style of fmish is what attracts atten- 
tion, instead of the style of form. 

WHITEWASHES AND CHEAP PAINTS.— Bril- 
HANT Stucco Whitewash — Will Last on Brick or 
Stone, Twenty to Thirty Years. — Many have he;iir<i 
ot the brilliant stucco whitewash on the east end of the 
President's house at Washington. The following is a recipe 
for it, as gleaned from the National Intelligencer ^ with some 
additional improvements learned by experiments : 

Nice unslaked lime \ bushel; slake it with boiling water; 
cover it during the process, to keep in the steam. Strain the 
liquid through a fine sieve or strainer, and add to it, salt 1 peck ; 
previously well dissolved in water ; rice 3 lbs.— boiled to a thin 
paste, and stirred in boiling hot ; Spanish whiting \ lb. ; clean 
nice glue 1 lb., which has been previously dissolved by soakiug 
it well, and then hanging it over a slow fire, in a small kettle, 
Immersed in a la-ger one filled with water. Now add hot water 
5 gals., to the mixture, stir It well, and let it stand a few days 
covered from the dirt. 

It should be put on not. For this purpose it can be 
kept in a kettle on a portable I'arnace. Brushes more oi 
less small may be used, according to the neatness of job re- 
quired. It answers as well as oil paint for brick or stone, and 
is much cheaper. 

There is one house in our city which had this applied 
twelve years ago, and is yet nice and bright. It has re- 
tained its brilliancy over thirty years. 

Coloring matter, dissolved in whisky, may be put in and 
made of any shade you like ; Spanish brown stirred in will 
make red-pink, more or less deep, according to quantity. 
A delicate tinge of this is very pretty for inside walls. 
Finely pulverized common clay, well mixed with Spanish 
brown, makes reddi.sh stone color. Yellow-ochere stirred 
m makes yellow wash, but chrome goes further, and makes 
a color generally esteemed prettier. In all the^?-^, cases the 
darkness of the shade, of course, is determined by the 
quantity of the coloring used. It is difficult to make rules^ 
because ta&tes are different — it would be best to try experi- 
ments on a shingle and let it dry. Green must not be mix- 
ed with lime. The lime destroys the color, and the colof 



o2t) *' DR. CJIASK'.S RLCli^r.8. 

has an effect on the whirewash, which makes it crack ubd 
peel. When iuside walls have beeu had ly smoked, and you 
wish to make them a clean, clear white, it is well to squeeze 
indigo plentifully through a bag into the water you use, be 
fore it is stirred into the whole mixture, or blue vitriol pal 
verized and dissolved in boiling water and put into white- 
wash, gi¥es a beautiful blue tint. If a larger quantity than 
live gallons be wanted, the same proportions should be ob- 
served. 

2. Whitewash— Very Nice for Rooms.— Take whiting 4 
lbs. ; wliite or common glue 2 ozs. ; stand ^he glue in cold w\^.tor 
over night ; mix the whiting with cold water, and heat the glue 
until dissolved ; and pour it into the other, hot. Make o^ a 
proper consistence to apply with a common whitewash brush. 

Use these proportions for a greater or less amount. In 
England scarcely any other kind of whit-nvash is used 

A lady, of Black lliver Falls, Wis., who had one of my 
books, wrote to me, expressing her thankfulness for tlie 
beauty of this w'hitewash. 

8. Paint — To Make tnitiiout Lead ok Ojt.— Whiting 5 lbs; 
skimmed milk 2 qts. ; fresh shiked lime 2 0Z!\ Pat th«^ lime 
into a stone-ware vessel, pour ujkju it a 8un]c:eut quantity of 
the milk to make a mixture resembling cream; tjie balance ot" 
the miik is then to be added; and lastly the whiting is to bo 
crambled upon the surface of tJie liuid, in v,iii"-,h it gradually 
sinks. At this period it must be well stirred in, or ground as 
you would other paint, and it is lit for use. 

There may be added any coloring matter that suits' the 
fancy, (see the first w-hitewash for mixing colors,) to bt^ ap- 
plied in the same manner as other paints, and in a few 
hours it will become perfectly d^-y. Another coat may <-hen 
be added and so on until the work is done. This paint is 
of great tenacity, bears rubbing with a coarse cloth bns 
little smell, even when wet, and when dry is inodorous. 
The above qtiantity is sufficient for fifty-seven yards. — A^i^ 
ha2)olis Repahllcan. 

^* We endorse the recip'\ The casein or curd of the 
milk, by the action of the caustic-lime, becomes insolublu. 
and has been used, for time immemorial, as a lute for chem- 
ical experiments. It is a good, and, in comparison w^ith 
white lead, a durable paint." — Moore s Rural New Yorker 

Most of the cheap paints will require about three coats. 



% 

MlSCELfiANEOllS DEPARTMENT. 327 

White lead always requires two, but some people think be- 
<;ause they get a cheap paint that one coat ought to make a 
good job. Two will generally do with any except white. 

4. White Paint— A New Way of MAFNUACTURiNa 
— The following was communicated by a man who was for- 
aierly a carpenter in the U. S. Navy. 

•^ During a cruise in the South Pacific, we went into the 
harbor of Ooquimbo ; and as the ship had been out a long 
time, she was covered with rust from stem to stern. It was 
the anxious wish of the commander that she should be re- 
6tored to her original colors; but on examining the store- 
room, it was ascertained that there was not a pound of white 
lead in the ship. In this emergency I bethought me of an 
expedient Avhich concocted an admirable substitute, com- 
posed of the following ingredients : 

''Air-slaked lime, pulverized ^antil it was of the fineness of 
lioiir, which w^as then passed through a seive. Rice l)<)iled iq a 
large kettle until the substance was drawn entirely out of the 
grain ; the water, then of a plastic nature, was strained to sepa- 
rate the grain, &c., from the clear liipiid. A tuV), about the size 
of a half barnO, of the prepared lime and rice-water, was mixed 
with 1 gaJloD ot linseed-oii ; and the material had so (uuch the 
appearance ol paint that a novice could not have told the dif- 
ference. 

'^ The ship was painted outside and inboard with the 
above mixture (which cost next to nothing,) and never pre- 
sented a finer white streak on her bends, or cleaner bulwarks 
and berth-deck than on that occasion, and no other kind of 
while paint w^as used during the remainder of the cruise.'^ 

If this is good for ships out and inboard, it is worth try- 
ing for fences and out-work re(|uiring a cheap white paint. 

5. Black and Green Paint—Durable and Cheap, for 
<')nT-DooR Work. — Any quantity of charcoal, powdered ; a suffi 
Cient quantity of litharage as a dryer, to l)e well levigated 
(rubbed smooth) wdth linseed-oil ; and wlien used, to be thinned 
with w^ell boiled linseed-oil. The above forms a good black 
paint. 

By adding yellow ochre, an excellent green is produced, 
which is preferable to the bright green, used by painters, for all 
garden w^ork, as it does not fade with the sun. 

This composition was first used by Dr. Parry, of }5ath, 
on some spouts; which, on being examined, fourteen years 
afterwards, were found to be ;is perfect as when first put 
tiD. 



32^ DR. chase's uecipes. 

6. Milk Patnt, for Barns — Any Color.— 'Mix water lime 
witii skim-milk, to a propur consistence to apply with a brush, 
and ic is ready to use. It will adhere well to wood, w^hether 
smooth or rough, to brick, mortar or stone, wiiere oil has not 
been used, (in which case it cleaves to some extent,) and forms 
a ver}^ hard substance, as durable as the best oil paint. It is too 
ciieap to estimate, and any one can put it on who can use a 
brush." — Ooun try Gen tlema n. 

Any color may be given to it, by using colors of tlie 
tinge desired, dissolving in whisky first, then adding in to 
Buit the fancy, as in the first recipe. 

If a red is preferred, mix Venetian-red with milk, noi 
using any lime. It looks well for fifteen years. 

LIQUID, AND WATER- PROOF GLUES.- Liquid Gll'E 

— To have a good glue alwaj's ready for use, just put a bottle 
two-thirds full of best common glue, and till up the bottle with 
common whisky ; cork it uj), ami set l)y for 3 or 4 days, and it 
will dissolve without the application of heat. 

It will keep for years, and is always ready to use witliout 
heat, except in very cold weather, when it may need to bi^ 
set a little while in a warm place, before using. 

2. Imitation of Spaldino's Glue. — First, soak in coM watei 
all the glue you wish to make at one time, using only glass, 
earthen, or porcelain dishes; then by gentle heat dissr»lv^e the 
glue in the same water, and pour in a little nitric acid, SMlhcieul 
to give the glue a sour taste, like vinegar, or from ^ oz to 1 oz. 
to each pound of glue. 

The acid keeps it in a liquid state, Siud prevent? it from 
spoiling ; as nice as Spalding's or any other, fot a very 
trifling expense. If iron dishes are used, the acid corrodes 
them and turns the glue black. Or : 

3. Acetic acid 1 oz.; pure soft water 6 oz.; glue d ')Z.; ^ura 
tragacanth 1 oz. Mix, and if not as thick as desired, a* Id a little 
more glue. 

This keeps in a liquid state, does not decompose } and is 
valuable for Druggists in labeling; also for house use ; and 
if furniture men were not prejudiced, they would find it 
valuable in the shop. 

4. Water- Proof Glue — Is made by first soaking ^ho glue in 
cold Waaler, for an hour or two, or \mtil it becomes a ^ittle soft, 
yet retaining its original form; then taking it from tlie w^iUei 
and dissolving it by geutie heal, stirring in a little boiled iin- 
6eed-oil 



MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 329 

If mahogany veneers were put on with this glue, thoj 
would not fall off, as they now do, by the action of the at- 
mosphere. 

FIRE KINDLEKS.— To make rery nice fire kiudlers, take 
»:osin, any quantity, and melt it, putting in lor each pound being 
used, from 2 to 3 ozs. of tallow, and when all is hot, stir in pine 
saw dust to make very thick ; and, while yet hot, spread it un' 
ahoui 1 inch thick, upon boaids vhich have line saw-dust 
sprinkled upon them, to prevent it from sticking. When cold, 
break up into lumps about 1 inch sciuare. But if for sale, take a 
thin board and press upoji it, while yet warm, to lay it ofi' into 
1 inch squares ; this makes it break regularly, if you press the 
crease sufficiently deep, greasing the marking- board to prevent 
(t from sticking. 

One of these blocks will easily ignite with a match, and 
burn with a strong blaze long enough to kindle any wood 
fit to burn. The above sells readily in all our large towns 
and cities, at a great profit. 

2. Most of the published recipes call for rosin 3 lbs.; tar 
1 qt.; and 1 gill of turpentine ; but they make a black, 
sticky mess of stuff, which always keep the hands daubed. 
On the other hand, this makes a rosin-colored kindler^ 
which breaks nicely also wheji cold; and they are decidedly 
a nice thing; and much more certain to start a fire than 
shavings. If the tar plan is used, 1 pt. is enough for 5 lbs 
of rosin. 

STAKCn POLTBH.~White-wax 1 oz.; spermaceti 2 ozs.; 
melt them together with a gentle heat. 

When you have prepared a sufficient amout of starch, in 
the usual way, for a dozen pieces — put into it a piece of tho 
polish tho size of a large pea ; more or less, according to 
large or small washings. Or, thick gum solution (made by 
pourijig boiling water upon gum arable,) one table -spoon to 
a pi or of starch, gives clothes a beautiful gloss. 

PERCUSSION MATCHES— OF THE best quality.—CIiIo- 

rate of potash f lb.; glue 3 lbs.; white lead, dry, 5 lbs.; red lead 
^ lb ; phospkorus 2f lbs. Directions. — First put the chlorate 
into a dish made for the purpose, deep, and of a suitable size to 
set mto a kettle of water, which can be kept on the fiiefor2 or 3 
days, having 2 qts. of water on the chlorate; then put the glue 
on top of the chlorate water, and let soak until ail is perfectly 
dissolved; then add the leads and heat up quite hot, and tho- 
roughly mix; let cool aud add the phosphorus, let it dissolve and 



o30 Dil. CIiA^3E's RECIPhri. 

be caieful never to heat hot after the phosphorus. is added; Svi^ 
occasionally while dipping, and if little particles of phosphorus 
fire:^, push it down into the iuixture, or put on warm water; \i 
you put on cold water, it will fly all over you. Keep it rathei 
tliiu after the phosphorus is put in, and there will be no danger ; 
although the chlorate of pota.^h is c^tnsidered a d:ingcrous arti- 
cle to work witii; so is powder, yet wlien you k"ow how to wnk 
with them, you can do as safely with one as the other. VYhep 
ary give them a coat of varnish, 

1 have been acquainted witli a man for about fourteea 
years who makes them, and several others for a less time, 
without trouble or accident. A better match was never 
made to stand dampness, or bear transportation without set- 
ting on fire. I have used and sold them much of the time, 
and speak from knowledge. One explosion has since taken 
place. 

The plan pursued here in preparing the splints is as fol- 
lows : Sawed pine timber from four to eight inches each 
way, is cut off the right length for the match, then one end 
of it is shnved smooth, with a drawing-knife; the biock is 
held upon the horse by a brace from the top of the horso 
hoad agaiijst the back side of the block, so as to be out of 
the way of the knife instead of putting the block under the 
jaws of the horse head, as the dents made in the end of 
match timber would not answer ; the front edge comes 
against a strip put on for that purpose ; then glue the other 
end and put on browa paper, which holds them together 
when split; machines are used to split with which feeds ivj 
the block enough each time the knife is raised, to make thfi 
size of the match when split the other way, or about ten to 
the inch. These machines cost about fifty dollais, and the 
work goes ahead like a young saw-mill, by simply turning 
a crank as shown in the figure. 

A A, shows two standards bolted upon a base plank, four 
foet in length ; these standards support a shaft, with ci*ank 
and balance wheel D, which is two feet in diameter , the 
hhaft has upon it an oval wheel, G, which sinks the knife, 
F, twice in each revolution, the knife passing down through 
a space in a thin iron strip, H, standing out from the two 
blocks, C C, under which the match block passes by the 
drawing of the chain seen to pass over a small drum, P, 
upon the shaft of the rag wheel, B, the notches being only 
one-fourtli inch apart, and fed up by the hand, M, attached to 



MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 



331 



the iron frame, L, being kept back to tlie cam wheel, E, which 
has two swells upon it, by a light spring whicli is not shown 




MATCH SPLITTING MACHINE. 

The hand, ]M, is kept down into the cogs or notches by tlie 
little spiral wire spring, K ; the match block, to be split, sets 
in the frame forward of the block, I, which ha>5 a pin in it 
to draw back the frame. A\ hen the block of matches is 
split, this frame goes forward to touch a catch, the same as 
a saw-mill, which lets aaoth^^ spring not seen, raise the 
hand, M, when the feeding operation ceases. The frame is 
then drawn back and the same repeated. As the match is 
Aplit they open and re(j[uire a rounding mortise made through 
the base plank between the blocks, C U, which allows them 
to remain in a half circular form — the knife is raised by a 
line attached to a spring pole, T, the knife is screwed upon 
a piece of cast iron which works in the guide, N, having the 
back end firmly fastened by a bolt through the standard, 
This knife stands at right angles with the shaft. When the 
matches are split and sufficiently dry to work upon, they are 
dipped in melted brimstone, kept hot, and the match also 
kept hot on a sheet iron stove, and all the brimstone is thrown 
&& which can possibly be by jerking the block with the 
hand, it any brimstone remains upon the end it must be 
scraped otf before dipping into the match composition. 
Withoui the chlora*e, the composition jnakcs a first class 



332 OR chase's recipes. 

^ Friction Match/^ It ought to be known, bowevor, that 
the match business is an unhealthy occupation, from the 
poisonous effects of the phosphorus. 

STEAM BOILERS— To Pre\t:nt Lime Deposits.— Put intc? 
four cistern or tank, from which the boiler is fed, a sufiicieni 
ainoi.ut of oak tan-bark, in the piece, to color the water rathei 
dark ; run i weeks and renew. 

This plan has been much used, in the lime-stone sections 
oi* Washington, 0., giving general satisfitction. 

2. Ohio River Plan. — Sprouts from barley, in malting, arc 
recommended by Capt. Lumm, part owner of a steamboat, and 
ongineer on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, to prevent the de- 
j)0sit of lime upon boilsrs, and ho says tightens up old leaky 
boilers, also, it may be used in quantities of from 8 pts. to 2 *»r 
3 qts., accordinaj to the size of boilers. 

When it is put in you must know the Cjuantity of water 
in the boiler, for unless 3'ou heat up quite slow it caustjs a 
foaming of the water, and might deceive the engineer about 
the amount of water in the boiler, but if heat up slow there 
is no danger of this deception. 

o. To Prevent Explosion, with the Reason why 
TfiEY Explode. — At a recent meeting of the Assouatioo 
for the Advancement of Science, Mr. Hyatt, of New York, 
presented what we believe to be the true cause. Be pre- 
sented the following table, showing the rapidity with which 
pressure is doubled by only a slight increase of heat. 

At 212 degrees of heat water begins to boil ; at 868 degrees 
iron becomes of a red heat : 

212 degrees of heat, 15 pounds to square inch. 

251 " '' 30 

294 " " 00 " " " 

342 " " 120 " " " 

308 " " 240 " " •* 

464 " " 480 " " * 

808 " " 7080 " " " 

It was stated by Mr. Hyatt, that, from experiments he had 
made, this great increase of pressure could be obtained in six to 
86i)eri minutes, with Rn engine at rest. This rapid doubling of 
pressure, with but a small increase of heat, is due to the conver- 
sion of what is termed latent heat, in steam, into sensible heat 
if w^e immerse a thermometer into boiling water, it stands at 
212 ; if we place it in steam immediately above the water, it 
indicates the same temperauue. The question then arises, wiial 
becomes of all the heat which is coiuiuuircatetl to the water, 



MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 333 

since it iB neither indicated by the waternor ny the steam formed 
from it? The answer is, it er*ers the water and converts it into 
fctfeim without raising its temperature. One ihoitsand degrees 
of heat are absorbed in the conversion of water into steam, and 
this is called its latent heat. And it is the sudden conversion ol 
Icifeat heat into semible heat that produces the explosion. If an 
engine is stopped, even if there is but a moderate fire, if the es- 
cape valve is closed, there is a rapid absorption or accumulation 
of latent heat. The pressure rises with great rapidity, and when 
the enjriD'"^*^' ttiinks everything is safe, the explosion comes. 

That this is the true cause of nearly all the explosions 
that occur, will be plain to every one who will look at the 
relations between latent and sensible heat. Prof. Henry 
and Prof. Silliman, Jr., endorse the view. What, then, is 
the security against explosions ? We know of no securities 
but these — a sufficiency of water in the boilers, and the 
escape valves open at light pressure, when the engine is at 
rest. — Spnnyjield Rep abliran. 

There is no question about the foregoing explanations be- 
ing founded in true philosophy \ and if engineers will be 
governed by them, instead of by a desire to hold on to steam 
tor the purpose of getting ahead or of keeping ahead, as 
the case may be, of some other boat; or on land, to save 
the expense of fuel, not o)ie explosion would take place 
wnere now there is, at least, a handred. 

Awful will be the reckoning with these murderers ; for 
in Heaven's sight they are one and the same 

A series of experiments have recently been concluded on 
the U. S. Steamer Michigan, and a full but voluminous re- 
port laid before the Navy Department, upon the subject of 
steam expansion. It would pay all interested in steam 
works to obtain .and read it. 

PLUMS ziND OTHER FRUIT— To Prevent Insects from 

Stinging. — Ttike new, dry lime, sulphur, and gunpowder, equal 
parts, pulverized very fine, and throw it amongst the flowers 
when in mil bloom; use it freely so that all may catch a little. 

This has been tried with success. Working upon tho 
principle ot pepper, to keep flies from meat. The injury 
to fruit being done while in blossom. 

BED-ROOM CARPETS— For Twelve and a half Cents 
PE.R Yard. — Sew together the cheapest cotton cloth, the size of 
the room, and tack the edges to tlie floor. Now paper the cloth 
a8 you would the sides of » room, with cheap room paper; put 



834 DR. chase's recipes.} 

ting a border around the edge ^f desired. The paste will be t 4 
better if a little gum arable is m^xed with it. W^hen thoroughly 
dry, give it two coats of furniture or carnage varnish, and when 
dry it is done. 

It can be washed ; and looks well in proportion to the 
quality and figure of the paper used. It could not be ex- 
pected to stand the wear of a kitchen, for any length of 
time, but for bed-rooms it is well adapted. 

COFFEE — More Healthy and Better Flavored, fob 
Onb-Foukth the Expense of Common. — Cotfee, by weight oi 
measure, one-fourth, rye three-fourths. 

Look them over separately, to i^move bad grains ; then 
wash to remove dust, draining off the water for a moment 
as you take it with the hands, from the washing water, 
putting directly into the browning skillet, carefully stirring, 
ail the time, to brown it evenly. Brown each one sepa- 
rately; then mix evenly, and grind only as used; settling 
with a beaten egg^ seasoning with a little cream and sugar 
a^ usual. 

And I do sincerely say the flavor is better, and it is ono 
hundred per cent, more healthy than all coffee. 

You may try barley, peas, parsnips, dandelion roots, &c., 
but none of their flavors are equal to rye. Yet all of them 
are more or less used for coffee. 

PICKLING FRUITS, AND CUCUMBERS— Pickling Ap 

PLES. — Best vinegar 1 gal.; sugar 4 lbs.; apples all it will cover 
handsomely ; cinnamon and cloves, ground, of each 1 table- 
spoon. 

Pare and core the apples, tying up the cinnamon and 
cloves in a cloth and putting with the apples, into the vine- 
gar and sugar and cooking until done, only. Keep in jars. 
Th^y are nicer than preserves, and more healthy, and keep 
a long time ; not being too sour, nor too sweet, but an agree- 
able mixture of the two. It will be seen below that th« 
difterent fruits require different quantities of sugar and 
vinegar, the reason for it, is, the difference in the fruit. 

2. Pickling Peaches. — Best vinegar 1 qt; sugar 4 lbs.; 
peaches, peeled and stoned 8 lbs. ; spices as desired, or as for 
apples. 

Treated every other way as apples. If they should begin 
tO ferment, at any time, simply boil down the juice ; then 
boil the peaches in it for a few minutes only. 



» MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 385 

3. Peaches — To Peel. — Ia peekag small peaches with 
a knife, too much of the peach is wasted ; but by having a 
wire-cage, similar to those made for popping corn ; fill the 
cage with peaches and dip it into boiling water, for a mo- 
ment, then into cold water for a moment and empty out • 
going on in the same way for all you wish to peel. This 
toughens the skin and enables you to strip it off, saving 
touch in labor, as also the waste of peach. Why not, as 
well as tomatoes? 

4, Pickling Plums.— Best vinegar 1 pt. ; sugar 4 lbs. ; pluma 
8 lbs. ; spices to taste. 

Boil them in the mixture until soft ; then take out the 
plums, and boil the syrup until quite thick and pour it over 
them again. 

5. Pickling Cucumbers. — Pick each morning ; stand in weak 
Drine 3 or 4 days, putting in mustard pods and horseradish 
leaves to keep them green. Then take out and drain, covering 
with vinegar for a w^eek; at which time take out and drain 
again, putting into new vinegar, adding mustard seed, ginger 
root, cloves, pepper and red pepper pods, of each about 1 or 2 
oz. ; or to suit ditferent tastes, for each barrel. 

The pickles will be nice and brittle, and pass muster a 
»ny man's table, or market, xlnd if it was generally known 
that the greenness of pickles was caused by the action of 
the vinegar on the copper kettle, producing apoison^ (ver- 
digris,) in which they are directed to be scalded, I think 
no one would wish to have a nice looking pickle at the ex- 
pense of health ; if they do, they can continue the bad prac- 
tice of thus e^^alding ; if not, just put your vinegar on cold, 
and add your red peppers, or cayennes, cloves, and other 
spicfjs, as desired ; but the vinegar must be changed once, 
as the large amount of water in the cucumber reduces the 
vinegar so much that this change is absolutely necessary ; 
and if they should seem to lose their sharp taste again, just 
4dd a little molasses, or spirit, and all will be right. 

SA.OT)STONE— To Prevent Scaling by FROST.—Raw lin- 
seed-oil, 2 or o coats. 

Apply in place of paint, not allowing the first coat to gat 
entirely dry until the next is applied ; if it does, a skin is 
formed which prevents the next from penetrating the 
fjtone. Poorly burned brick will be equally well preserved 
by the aaHie Drocessu 



<}86 DR. chase's RECIPEa. • 

SEALING wax—Red, Black, and Blue.— Gum Shellac 8 
oz.; Venice turpentine 4 ozs.; yermillion 24 ozs.; alcohol 2 ozs.; 
camphor gum i- oz. Dissolve the camphor in the alcohol, then 
the shellac, adding the t'^irpentine, and finally the vermillion,be- 
.'ng very careful that no blaze shall come jn contact with ita 
ttimes ; foi if it does, it will fire very quickly. 

Blce. — Substitute fine Prussian-blue for the vermillion, same 
quantity. 

Black. — Lamp-black only sufiicient to color. Either color 
a.ust be well rubbed into the mixture. 

ADVICE — To YOUNG MEN AND OTHERS, OUT OF EM- 

TLOYMENT. — Advice — How few there are that will heai 
advice at all ; not because it is advice, but from the fact 
that those who attempt to give it are not qualified for the 
work they assume } or that they endeavor to thrust it upoxs 
their notice at an inappropriate time ; or upon persons over 
whom no control is acceded, if claimed. But a book or 
paper never give offens-e from any of these causes ', there- 
fore, they are always welcomed with a hope that real benefit 
may be derived from their suggestions. Whether that end 
will be attained in this case, I leave to the judgment of 
those for whom it is intended ; hoping they may find them- 
selves sufficienly interested to give it a careful perusal, and 
candid consideration. And although my remarks must, in 
this work, be necessarily short, yet every sentence shall be 
a text for your owd thoughts to contemplate and enlarge 
upon ; and perhaps, in some future edition of the work, I 
may take room and time to give the subject th.at attention 
wl:ich is really its due ; and which would be a pleasure to 
devote to its consideration. 

First, then, let me ask why are so many young men and othei 
persons out of employment ? The answer is very positive 
a^j well as very plain. It is this — indolence, coupled with a 
d ('termination that they will do some great thing, only 
And because that great thing does not turn up without efiTort, 
they are doing nothing. The point of difficulty is simplj 
tliis ; they look for the end, before the beginning. Bui 
just consi(^er how few there are that really accomplish anj 
great thing, even with a whole life of industry and economi- 
cal perseverance. And yet most of QF\xr youth calculate that 
their heghndng shall be amongst the greats. But as no ona 
comes to ofl'er them their expectations, iiidolp»e<ii says wait; 



MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. b87 

and so they are still waiting. Now mind you, as long aa 
your expectations are placed upon a chance offer of some- 
thing very remunerative, or upon the assistance of others ; 
even in a small way, so long will you continue to v/ait in 
vain. At this point, then, the question would arise, whafc 
can be done ? and the answer is equally plain with the other. 
Take hold of the first job you can find, for it will not find 
vou. No matter how insignificant it may be, it will be bet- 
^r than longer idleness ; and when you are seen doing 
something for yourselves, by those whose opinions are worth 
Any consideration, they will soon offer you more and better 
jobs ; until, finally, you will find something which agrees 
with your taste or inclination, for a life business, Eut re- 
member that the idle never have good situations offered 
them. It is the industrious and persevering orly, who are 
needed to assist in life's great struggle. 

There arc a few lines of poetry called " The Excellent 
Man,'' which advocates the principles I am endeavoring to 
advance, so admirably that I cannot deny myself the plea- 
sure of quoting them. The old proverb, " God helps those 
who help themselves," is as true as it is old, and after all 
that is said and done, in this country, if in no other, a man 
must depend on his own exertions, not on patronage, if he 
would have or deserve success : 

*' They gave me advice and counsel in store, 
Praised me and honored me more and more 
Said that I only should ' wait awhile,' 
Offered their patronage, too, with a smil© 

But vsdth all their honor and approbation, 
I should long ago have died of starvation, 
Had there not come an excellent man, 
Who, bravely to help me along began 

Good-fellow! he got me the food late, 

His kindness and care I shall never forget ; 

Yet I cannot embrace him — though other folks CAn, 

For I, myself, am this excellent man 1" 

Op, then, and at it, for there is 

Knitting and sewing, and reaping and mowing, 

And all kinds of work for the people to do. 
To keep themselves busy, both Abram and Lizf ie ; 

Begin, then, ye idle, there is plenty for yon. 

When you have found a silruation or a job of work, prav« 



338 DR. CHACE*S RECIPEb. 

yourself honest, industrious, persevering, and faithful io 
every trust, and no fears need be apprehended of your finai 
success. Save a part of your wages as a sinking fund, or 
rather as a floating fund, which shall keep your head above 
water in a storm ; or to enable you, at no distant day, to 
commence a business of your own. 

A poor orphan boy, of fourteen, once resolved to save 
half of his wages, which were only four dollars per month, 
for this purpose ; and actually refused, even in sickness, 
although really suffering for comforts, to touch this businoja 
fund. He was afterwards the richest man in St. Louis. 

His advice to young men was always this : '' Go to work ) 
Bave half your wages ; no matter how small they may be, 
until you have what will enable you to begin what you wish 
to follow; then begin it, stick to it; be economical, pru- 
dent, and careful, and you cannot fail to prosper.'^ 

My advice is the same, with this qualification, however; 
that in choosing your occupation, you should be governed 
by the eternal principles of right ! never choosing that 
which, when done, injures a fellow creature more than it can 
possibly benefit yourself — I mean the liquor traffic. But 
with the feelipg of St. Paul, when he saw the necessity of 
doing something different from what he had been doing, he 
cried out, ^' Lord, what wilt thou have me to do V^ Ask 
your own tastes, being governed by conscience, under the 
foregoing principles ; knowing that if a person has to learn 
a trade or business against his own inclination, it requires 
double dilligonce to make only half speed, and hardly ever 
meeting with success. 

The question to be settled, then, is this : Shall I work 
the soil : Shall I be a mechanic, teacher, divine, physician, 
lawyer, merchant, druggist, or grocer, or shall it be some- 
thing else ? Whenever you make up your mind what it 
shall be, make it up, also, to be the best one in that line of 
business. Set your mark high, both m point of moral 
purity and literary qualificaiio.^s. 

If you choose any of the occupations of trade, you must 
Buye all that it is possible for economy and prudence to do, 
f(^r your beginning. 

But if you choose one of the learned professions, you 
mu^it work with the same care and prudence until you hav« 



MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 339 

•iccTimulated sufficient to make a fair commencement in your 
Btiidies ; tlien prosecute them in all faithfulness as far as 
the accumulated means will advance you ; realizing that 
this increase of knowledge will give you increased power in 
obtaining the further means of prosecuting your studies, 
necessary to qualify you to do one thing only in life. 

Nearly all of our best men are self-made, and men of one 
idea, /, e., they have set themselves to be mechanics, physi- 
cians, lawyers, sculptors, &c., and have bent their whole 
energies and lives to fit themselves for the great work before 
them. Begin, then ; offer no excuse. Be sure you are on 
the right track, then go ahead : 

" liive for something :" slothful be no longer, look around for some employ ; 

I^bor always make« you stronger, and also gives 3-ou sweetest joy. 

Idle hands are always weary ; faithful hearts are always gay ; 

Life for us, should not he dreary ; nor can it, to the active, every day. 

Always remembering that industry, in study or labor, will 
£:cep ahead of his work, giving time for pleasure and en- 
joyment; but indolence is ever behind ; being driven with 
her work, and no prospect of its ever being accomplished. 

When you have made your decision, aside from what time 
you must necessarily devote to labor, let all possible time be 
given to the study of the best works upon the subject of 
your occupation or profession, knowing that one hour's 
reading in the morning, when the mind is calm and free 
from fatigue, thinking and talking with your companions 
through the day upon the subjects of which you have been 
reading, will be better than twice that time in evening read- 
ing, yet if both can be enjoyed, so much the better ; but one 
of them must certainly be occupied in this way. 

If you choose something in the line of mercantile or trade 
life, do not put off, too long, commencing for yourself. Bet- 
ter begin in a small way and learn, as your capital increases, 
how to manage a larger business. 

I knew a gentleman to commence a business with five 
dollars, and in two weeks his capital was seventeen dollars, 
pcsidea feeding his family. 

I knew one also to begin with sixty dollars, and in fifteen 
months he cleared over four hundred and fifty dollars, be- 
sides supporting his family ; then he sold out and lost all^ 
before he again got into successful business. 

N person should ever sell out, or quit an honorable pay 
ing buf?ines8 



B40 \m. chase's recipes. 

Tliose who choose a professional life, A7iK liardK find a 
place in the West, equal to the University of Michigan, 
Ann Arbor, to obtain their literary qualifications. An en- 
trance fee of Ten Dollars, with Five Dollars yearly, pays 
for a full Literary, Law, Medical, or Civil Engineering 
course ; the first requiring four, the two next, two, and the 
last, three years. [See Frontispiece.] 

Or, in the words of the Catalogue : " The University^ 
having been endowed by the General Government, affords 
education, without money and without price. There is no 
young man, so poor, that industry, diligence, and persever- 
ance, will not enable him to get an education here. 

*' The present condition of the University eenfirms this 
view of its character. While the sons of the rich, and of 
men of more or less property, and, in large proportion, the 
sons of substantial farmers, mechanics, and merchants, are 
educated here, there is also a very considerable number of 
young men dependent entireli^ upon their own exertions — 
young men who, accustomed to work on the farm, or in the 
mechanic's shop, have become smitten with the love of 
knowledge, and are manfully working their way through, to 
a liberal education, by appropriating a portion of their time 
to the field or the workshop.'' 

Persons wishing to qualify themselves for teaching In 
this State, will find the Normal School, Ypsilanti, undoubt- 
edly preferable. 

And that none may excuse themselvcH from an effort be- 
cause son>ewhat advanced in life, let me say that Doctor 
Eberle, who wrote severa-1 valuable medical works, did not 
begin his medical studies until forty-five years of age ; and, 
although I could mention many more, I will only add that I, 
myself always desired to become a physician, yet circum- 
stances did not favor nor justify my commencement until 
I was thirty-eight. See the remarks following *' Eytj 
Water." 

There is no occupation, however, so free and independent 
as that of the farmer ) and there is none, except parents, 
capable of using so great an influence, for good or for evil, 
as that of teacher. 

All might and ought, to a greater ar less extent, bft farm 
ers ; but all cannot be teachers. Then let tho8» v»ho8e 



MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 341 

taj>te inclines tliem to teach, not slirink the responsibility^ 
bat fully qualify for the work; learning also the ways of 
Truth and Righteousness for themselves ; teaching it 
through the week-school, by action as well as by word, and 
in the Sabbath-school, fail not to take their stand for the 
right, like our President elect; then when it comes your 
turn to assist in the government of the State, or Nation, the 
people will come to your support, as you do to your work — 
as they have just done to his, (1860); feeling, as now, that 
the government must be safe in the hands of those who love 
God — deal honestly with thoir fellows; and who, in remem- 
bering the Sabbath to keep it holy themselves, are not 
ashamed — nor forget, to teach the children to love the same 
God, and reverence His Word. Only think — a Sabbath- 
Sehool Teacher — a Rail- Splitter — a Boat-man^ President 
of the United States ! 

Who will hereafter be afraid of common labor ; or, let 
indolence longer prevent their activity ? when it is only 
those who begin with small things, and persevere through 
life, that reach the final goal of greatness ; and, as in this 
CJise, are crowned with the greatest honor which man can 
receive — the confidence of his Nation. 

Then let Industry take the place of Indolence, beginning 
to be great, by grappling with the small things of life — be 
faithful to yourself, and, you may reasonably expect, the end 
shall, indeed, be great. 

And although it could not be expected, in a work of this 
kind, chat much could, or would be said, directly, regarding 
a future life, yet I should be recreant to duty if I did not 
say a \ford more upon that subject. It shall be only a 
word . Be as faithful to GoD, as I have recommended you 
So be lO yourselves, and all things pertaining to a future, 
vill bo equally prosperous, and glorious in its results. 

GRAMMAR IN RHYME— For tiie Little Folks. 
—It is seldom that one sees so much valuable matter as the 
following lines contain, comprised in so brief a space 
Every young grammarian, and mafiy older heads, will find 
\t highly advantageous to commit the **' poem ^' to memory i 



842 DR. CHASE'S RECll'ES 

for with these lines at the tongue^s end, none rx^^i e?0f 
mistake a part of speech : 

1. "Three little words you often see, 
Are articles— a, an^ and t?ie. 

2. A Noun's tlie name of any thing, 
As school^ or garden^ Jioop^ or swing 

S. Adjectives tell the kind of Noun, 
As greai^ simill, pretty^ uMte^ or In'own. 

4. Instead of Nouns the Pronouns stand — 
Her head, Ms face, your arm, lay hand. 

5. Verbs tell of something to be done — 
To read^ county siiig^ lavgh, j'^i'^Py or run, 

6. How things are dowe, the adverbs tell, 
As sloidy^ quickly, iU^ wr well. 

7. Conjunctions join the words together — 
As men ami women, wind or weather. 

8. The Preposition stands before 

A Noun, as in, or ihrough a door. 

9. The Interjection shows surprise, 
As oh! how pretty — ah/ how wise. 

The who4e arc caUed Nine Piirts of Speech, 
Which reading, writing, spealving, teach. 

MUSICAL CURIOSITY— Scotch Genttts in TEAcnmo.—A 

Highland piper, having a scholar to teach, disdained to crack 
his brains with the names of s'-mibreves, minims, crotchets and 
quavers. " Here, Donald," said he, ''tak yer pipes, hid, and gie 
us a blast. So -verra wcel blawn, indeed; but what's a sound, 
Donald, without sense? Ye maun biaw forever without making 
a tune o't, if I dinna tell j^ou how the (jueer things on tlie priner 
maun help you. You see that big fellow wi' a round, open face ? 
(pointing to a semibreve between two lines of a bar). He uiovea 
slowly from that line to this, while ye beat ane wi' yer list, and 
gie us a long blast. If, now, ye put a leg to him, ye mak' twa 
o' him, and he'll move twice as fast ; and if ye black his fice, 
he'll run four times taster than the fellow vvf the v»^hite face; 
but if, after blacking his face, ye'U bend his knee or tie his l^g, 
he'll hop eight times faster than the white-faced chap 1 showed 
3'ou first. Now, whene'er ye blaw yer pi})cs, Donald, remember 
this — that the tighter those fellows' legs are tied, the faster 
they'll run, and the quicker they're sure to dance." 

That is, the more legs they have bent up, contrary te 
nature, the faster goes the music. 



COLORING DEPARTMENT. 

REMARKS. — It may be necessary to remark, and I do 
t ftere, once for all, that every article to be dyed, as well as 
everything used about dyeing, should be perfectly clean. 

In the next place, the article to be dyed should be well 
acoured m soap, and then the soap rinsed out. It is also 
an advantage to dip the article you wish to dye into warm 
water, ja* t before putting it into the alum or other prepara- 
tion ; for the neglect of this precaution it is nothing uncom- 
mon tx} h^ve the goods or yarn spotted. Soft water should 
always be used, if possible, and sufficient to cover the goods 
handsomely. 

As soon as an article is dyed it should be aired a little, 
then well rinsed, and afterwards hung up to dry. 

When dyeing or scouring silk or merino dresses, care 
should be taken not to wring them, for this has a tendency 
to wrinkle and break the silk. 

In putting dresses and shawls out to dry, that have been 
dyed, they should be hung up by the edge so as to dry 
evenly. 

Great confidence may be placed in these coloring recipes, 
as the author has had them revised by Mr. Storms, of thia 
city, who has been in the business over thirty years. 

COLORS ON WOOLEN GOODS. 

1. CHUOME BLACK— Superior to Any in Use.— 

For 5 lbs. of goods — blue vitriol 6 ozs. ; boil it a few min- 
utes, then dip the goods f of an hour, airing often; take 
out the goods, and make a dye with logwood 8 lbs. ; boil i 
hour ; dip | of an hour and air the goods, and dip J of an 
hour more. Wash m strong suds. 

N. B. — This will not impart any of its color in fulling, 
Qor fade by exposure to the sun. 

2. BLACK ON WOOL— Fo Mixtures.— For 10 lbs. 
of wool -bi-chromate of potash 4 ozs. ; ground argal 3 ozs. ; 
boil together and put in the wool ; stir well and let it re- 
main in the dye 4 hours. Then take out the wool, rinse it 
slightly in clear water ; then make a new dye, into which 

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344 DR. chase's recipes. 

pat logwood 3'i lbs. Boil 1 hour and add chamber- Ije 1 
pt., and let the wool lie in ail night. Wash In clear water 

3. STEEL MIX— Dark.— Black wool— it may be nat- 
ural or colored, 10 lbs. — white wool 1^ lbs. Mix evenly t^ 
gether and it will be beautiful. 

4. SNUFF BROWN— Dark, for Cloth or Wool — 
For 5 lbs. goods — camwood 1 lb. ; boil it 15 minutes, then 
dip the goods for f hour ; take out the goods, and add to the 
dye, fustic 2} lbs.; boil 10 minutes, and dip the goods | 
hour ; then add blue vitriol 1 oz. ; copperas 4 ozs. ; dip 
again J hour; if not dark enough, add more copperas. It 
is dark and permanent. 

5. WINE COLOB.— For 5 lbs. goods— camwood 2 lbs.; 
boil 15 minutes and dip the goods J hour ; boil again and 
dip i hour; then darken with blue vitriol IJ ozs.; if not 
dark enough, add copperas J oz. 

6. MADDEB BED.-^To each lb. of goods— alum 5 
ozs. ; red, or cream of tartar 1 oz. ; put in the goods and 
bring your kettle to a boil for J hour ; then air them and boi) 
i hour longer ; then empty your kettle and fill with clean 
water, put in bran 1 peck; make it milk warm and let it 
stand until the bran rises, then skim oif the bran and put 
m madder J lb. ; put in your goods and heat slowly until it 
boils and is done. Wash in strong suds. 

7. GBEEN — On Wool or Silk, with Oak Bark. — 
Make a strong yellow dye of yellow oak and hickory bark, 
in equal quantities. Add the extract of indigo, or chemic, 
(which see,) 1 table-spoon at a time, until you get the shade 
of color desired. Or : 

8. GBEEN— With Fustic— For each lb. of goods- 
fustic 1 lb.; with alum 3 J ozs. Steep until the strength ia 
out, and soak the goods therein until a good yellow is ob- 
tained ; then remove the chips, and add extract of indigo 
or chemic, 1 table-spoon at a time, until the color suits. 

9. BLUE— Quick Process. — For 2 lbs. of goods, — alum 
5 ozs. ; cream of tartar 3 ozs. ; boil the goods in this for 1 
hour ; then throw the goods into warm water, which has 
more or less of the extract of indigo in it, according to the 
depth of color desired, and boil •igain until it suits, adding 
more of the blue if needed. . It is quick and permanent. 



COLOIUNG DEPARTIVIENT. 845 

iO. STOCK ING YARN, OR WOOL TO COLOR— 
f'iiTWKEN A Blue and Purple. — For 5 lbs. of wool bi- 
cluoiiiate ot potash 1 oz. ; alum 2 ozs. ; dissolve them and 
bung the water to a boil, putting in the wool and boiling 1 
I'niu ; then tlirow away the dye and make another dye with 
lowvvood cliips I lb., or extract of logwood 2i ozs., and boi) 
I liuur. This also works very prettily on silk. 

N B. — Whenever you make a dye with logwood chipt 
eirner boil the chips i hour and pour oflf the dye, or tie u 
the chips in a bag and boil with the wool or other goods 
or lake 2 2 ozs. of the extract in place of 1 lb. of the chipt 
*s le^s trouble and generally the better plan. In the abov 
recipw the more logwood that is used the daxker will be th 
shade 

11. 8CARLET, WITH COCHINEAL— For Yarn ok 
(]lotb.— For 1 lb. of goods — cream of tartar ^ oz. ; coch- 
ineal, wfiU pulverized, ^ oz. ; muriate of tin 2 J ozs. ; then 
boil up die dye and enter the goods; work them briskly for 
10 or Ih minutes, after which boil 1^ hours, stirring tho 
goods slowly while boiling, wash in clear water and dry in 
the shacln. 

12. PINK. — For 3 lbs. of goods — alum 3 ozs., boil and 
dip the goods 1 hour ; then add, to the dye, cream of tar- 
tar 4 ozs. , cochineal, well pulverized, 1 oz. ; boil well and 
dip the goods while boiling, until the color suits. 

13. ORANGE.— For 5 lbs. goods— muriate of tin 6 
table-spoons ; argal 4 oz-s. ; boil and dip 1 hour ; then add, 
to the dye, ttistic 2i lbs. ; boil 10 minutes, and dip i hour, 
and add, agam, to the dye, madder 1 tea-cup ; dip again i 
hour. 

N. B.— Cochineal in place of madder makes a much 
brighter color, which should be added in small quantities 
mtil pleased. About 2 ozs. 

14. LAC RED. — For 5 lbs. goods — argal 10 ozs. ; boil a 
few minutes ; then mix fine ground lac 1 lb. with muriate 
ot tin 1 J lbs., and let them stand 2 or 3 hours; then add halt 
01 the lac to the argal dye, and dip J hour ; then add the 
balance of the ^nc and dip again 1 hour; keep the dye at a 
boding heat, 'v il the last half hour, when the dyo may be 
cooled off. 



S46 DR. chase's recipes. 

15. PURPLE.— For 5 lbs. goods— cream of tartai 4 
ozs.; alum 6 ozs.; cochineal, well pulverized, 2 ozs. ; mi>ri- 
ate of tin J tea-cup. Boil the cream of tartar, alum and 
tin, 15 minutes; then put in the cochineal and boil 5 min- 
utes ; dip the goods 2 hours ; then make a new dye with 
alum 4 ozs. ; Brazil wood 6 ozs. ; logwood 14 ozs. ; muriate 
of tin 1 tea-cup, with a littk chemic; work again until 
pleased. 

16. SILVER DRAB— Light.— For 5 lbs. goods— alum 
1 small tea-spoon, and logwood about the same amount ; bni] 
well together, then dip the goods 1 hour; if not dark 
enough, add in equal quantities alum and logwood, until 
suited. 

17. SLATE, ON WOOLEN OR COTTON— With 
Beach Bark. — Boil the bark in an iron kettle, skim out 
the chips after it has boiled sufficiently, and then add cop- 
peras to set the dye. If you wish it very dark add more 
copperas. This is excellent for stockings. 

18. EXTRACT OF INDIGO OR CHEMIC— To 
Make. — For good chemic or extract of indigo, take oil of 
vitriol i lb., and stir into it indigo, finely ground, 2 ozs., 
continuing the stirring at first for i hour; now cover over, 
and stir 3 or 4 times daily for 2 or 3 days ; then put in a 
crumb of saleratus and stir it up, and if it foams, put in 
more and stir, and add as long as it foams; the saleratus 
neutralizes any excess of acid ; then put into a glass vessel 
and cork up tight. It improves by standing. Druggists 
keep this prepared. 

19. WOOL— To Cleanse.— Make a liquid of water 3 
parts and urine 1 part ; heat it as hot as you can bear the 
hand in it; then put in the wool, a little at a timr, so a& 
not to have it crowd ; let it remain in for 15 minutes ; take 
it out over a basket to drain ; then rinse in running water, 
and spread it out to dry ; thus proceed in the same liquor^ 
when it gets reduced fill it up, in the same proportions^ 
keeping it at hand heat, all the time not using any soap. 

20. DARK COLORS-To Extract and Insert Light. 
— This recipe is calculated for carpet rags. In the first 
place let the rags be washed clean — the bhick or brown rags 
can be eelored red, or purple, at the option of the dy^r ; to do 



COLORING DEPARTMENT. 347 

tills, take, for every 5 lbs black or brown rags muriate of 
tin I lb.; and the lac i lb.; mixed with the same, as foi 
the lac red; dip the goods in this dye 2 hours, boiling '} of 
the time, if not red enough add more tin and lac. The 
goods can then be made a purple, by adding a little logwood ; 
be careful, and not get in but a very small handful, as more 
can be added if not enougk White rags make a beautiful 
ippearance in a carpet, by tying them in the skein and coi- 
ling them red, green or purple ; gray rags will take a very 
iood green, — the coloring will be in proportion to the dark- 
less of mix. 

DURABLE COLORS ON COTTON. 

1. BLACK. — For 5 lbs. goods — sumac, wood and bark 
together, 3 lbs. ; boil ^ hour, and let the goods steep 12 
hours ; then dip in lime water ^ hour ; then take out the 
goods and let them drip an hour; now add to the sumac 
liquor, copperas 8 ozs., and dip another hour ; then run 
them through the tub of lime water again for 15 minutes • 
now make a new dye with logwood 2J lbs., by boiling ]| 
hour, and dip again 3 hours; now add bi-chromate of pot-l 
ash 2 ozs., to the logwood dye, and dip 1 hour. Wash in 
clear cold water and dry in the shade. You may say this 
is doing too much. You cannot get a permanent black on 
cotton with Ihss labor. 

2. SKY BLUE.— For 3 lbs. goods— blue vitriol 4 ozs.; 
Doll a few minutes ; then dip the goods 3 hours, after which 
p^'iss them through strong lime water. You can make this 
Color a beautiful brown by putting the goods through a so- 
lution of Prussiate of potash. 

3. LIME WATER, AND STRONG LIxME WATER.— 
Foil Coloring. — Lime water is made by putting stone lime 1 
lb., and stroDi^ lime water, 1 J lbs. into a pail of water, slack- 
ing, stirring, and letting it stand until it becomes clear, then 
turn into a tub of water, in which dip the goods. 

4. BLUE, ON COTTON OR LINEN— With Logwood 
In all cases, if new, they should be boiled in a strong soap 
fiuds or weak-lye and rinsed clean ; then for cotton 5 lbs. 
or linen 3 lbs., take bi-chromate of potash J lb. ; put in 
che goods and dip 2 hours, then take out, rinse ; make a 



34H Da. CUASF/s RECJl'KS. 

G}v v^ith logwood 4 lbs. ; dip in this 1 hour, air, ai i hi 
suuid in the dye 3 or 4 hours, or till the dye is almost cold 
wash out and dry. 

5. BLUE ON COTTON— WITHOUT Logwood. — 'br 5 
lbs. of rags — copperas 4 ozs.; boil and dip 15 minutes; theo 
dip in strong suds, and back to the dye 2 or 3 times; thro 
make a dye with prussiate of potash 1 oz.; oil of vitriol 6 
table-spoons ; boil 30 minutes and rinse ; then dry. 

6. GREKN. — If the cotton is new, boil in weak-lye oi 
strong suds ; then wash and dry ; give the cotton a dip ir. 
the home-made blue dye-tub until blue enough is obtained 
to make the green as dark as required, take out, dry, and 
rinse the goods a little ; then make a dye with fustic f lb. ; 
logwood 3 ozs. to each lb. of goods, by boiling the dye 1 
hour ; when cooled so as to bear the hand^ put in the cot- 
ton, move briskly a few minutes, and let lay in 1 huur; 
take out and let it thoroughly drain ; dissolve and add to 
the dye, for each lb. of cotton, blue-vitriol i oz., and aip 
another hour ; wring out and let dry in the shade. By ad- 
ding or diminishing the logwood and fustic, any shade of 
green may be obtained. 

7. YELLOW. — For 5 lbs. of goods — sugar of lead 7 ozs. ; 
dip the goods 2 hours; make a n-ew dye with bi-chromate 
of potash 4 ozs. ; dip until the color suits, wring out and 
dry, if not yellow enough repeat, the operation. 

8. ORANGE. — For 5 lbs. goods — sugar of lead 4 ozs. ; 
boil a few minutes, and when a little cool put in the goods, 
dip 2 hours, wring out ; make a new dye with bi-chromatc 
of potash 8 ozs. ; madder 2 ozs. ; dip until it suits ; if the 
color should be too red, take off a small sampl-e and dip ii 
into lime water, when the choice can be taken of the sam 
pie dipped in the lim^ or the original color. 

8. RED. — Take muriate of tin f of a tea-cup ; add suffl 
lent water to cover the goods well, bring it to a boiling 
i?eat, putting in the goods 1 hour, stirring often ; take out 
the goods and empty the kettle and put in clean water, witn 
nic-wood 1 lb., steeping it for ^ hour, at hand heat ; the?i 
put in the goods and increase the heat for 1 hear, not bring- 
ing to a boil at all ; air the goods and dip an hour as be 
lore ; wash without soap. 



COLORING DEPARTxMENT. 349 

a. MURIATE OF TIN— Tin J.tqugr— If druggists 
Aeep it, it is best to purchase of them ah-eady made ; but ij 
you prefer, proceed as follows : 

Get at a tinner's shop, block tin ; put it in a shovel and 
melt it. After it is melted, pour it from the hight of 4 or 
5 feet into a pail of clear water. The object of this is to 
have the tin in small particles, so that the acid can dissolve 
it. Take it out of the water and dry it ; then put it into a 
strong glass bottle ; pour over i-t muriatic aeid 12 ozs. ; then 
slowly, add sulphuric ac-id 8 ozs. The acid should be add- 
ed about a table-spoon at a tiiae, at interva-ls of 5 or 8 min- 
utes, for if you add it too rapidly you run the risk of 
breaking the bottle by bea-t. Aft^r you have all the acid 
in, let the bottle stand until the ebullition subsides ; then 
stop it up with a bees-wax ar glass stopper, and set it away, 
and it will keep good for a year or more, or will be fit for 
use in 24 hours. 

COLORSON SILK GOODS. 

GREEN — Very Handsome with Oak Bark. — For 1 

lb. of silk — yellow oak bark 8 ozs. ; boil it i hour ; turn 
off the liquor from the bark and add alum 6 ozs. ; let stand 
until cold ; while this dye is being made, color the goods in 
the blue dye-tub, a light blue; dry and wash ; then dip in 
the alum and bark dye ; if it does not take well, warm the 
dye a little. 

2. GREEN OR YELLOW— On Silk or Wool, in 
Five to Fifteen Minutes. — For 5 lbs. of goods — black 
oak bark ar peach leaves i peck ; boil well ; then take out 
the bark or leaves, and add muriate of tin i tea-cup, stir- 
ring well ', then put in the goods and stir them round, and 
it will dye a deep yellow in from 5 to 15 minutes, according 
to th*) stren2:th of the bark ; take out the goods, rinse and 
dry immediately 

N B. — For a green, add, to the above dye, extract of 
indigo, or chemic 1 table-spoon only, at a time, and work 
the goods 5 minutes, and air ; if not sufficiently dark use 
the same amount of chemic as before, and work again until 
U suits. 

3. MULBEKRY— For 1 lb. of silk— alum 4 ozs. j dip I 



350 DR. chase's recipes 

hour; wash out, and make a dye with Brazil wood 1 oz., 
and logwood i oz. by boiling together ; dip in this i hour, 
then add more Brazil wood and logwood, in equal propor- 
tions, until the color is dark enough. 

1. BLACK. — Make a weak dye as you would for black 
on woolens, work the goods in bi-chromate of potash, at a 
little below boiling heat, then dip in the logwood in the 
same way ; if colored in the blue vitriol dye, use about the 
same heat. 

5. SPOTS — To Remove and Prevent when Color- 
ing Black on Silk or Woolen. — N. B. In dyeing silk or 
woolen goods, if they should become rusty or spotted, all 
that is necessary is to ma-ke a weak-lye, and have it scalding 
hot, and put your goods in for 15 minutes ; or throw 
some ashes into your dye, and run your goods in it 5 
minutes, and they will come out a jet black, and an eveo 
color. I will warrant it. — Storms. 

The reason that spots of brown, or rust, as it is generally 
called, appear on black cloths, is that these parts take the 

3olor faster than the other parts ; but I have no doubt Mr. 

^torms^ plan will remove them, for he regretted much to 
make public the information, which he says is not g^^nerally 
known. And if the precaution, given in our leading re- 
marks on coloring, are heeded, there will be but very little 
danger of spotting at all. 

6. LIGHT CHEMIC BLUE.— For cold water 1 gal., 
dissolve alum J table-spoon, in hot water 1 tea-cup, and add 
to it ; then add chemlc 1 tea-spoon at a time, to obtain the 
desired color, — the more chemic that is used, the darker 
will be the color. 

7 PUEPLE.— For 1 lb. of silk— haviag first obtained 

. a light blue by dipping in tiie home-made blue dye-tub. anxl 

dried, dip in alum 4 ozs., to sufficient water to cover, whee 

a little warm ; if the color is not full enough add a littk 

chemic. 

6. YELLOW,— For 1 lb. of silk—alum 3 oza.; sugar ot 
lead I ozs ; immerse the goods in the solution over night ; 
take out, drain, and make a new dye with fustic 1 lb. ; dip 
until the required color is obtained. 

N. B. The yellow or green, for wool, works equally well 
on silk. 



COLORING DEPARTMENT. 351 

9. ORANGE. — Take anotta and soda, and add in equal 
quantities, according to the amount of goods and darkness 
of the color wanted : Say 1 oz. of each, to each pound of silk, 
and repeat as desired. 

10. CIllMSON.— For 1 lb. of silk— alum 3 ozs. ; dip at 
hand-heat 1 hour ; take out and drain, while making a new 
dje, by boiling 10 minutes, cochineal- 3 ozs. ; bruised nut- 
galls 2 ozs. ; and cream of tartar i oz., in one pail of water; 
»vhen a little cool, begin to d^.p, raising the heat to a boil, 
coiit-inuing to dip 1 hour ; wash and dry. 

11. CINNAMON OR BROWN ON COTTON AND 
SILK. — By a New Process — Very Beautiful. — Give 
the goods as much color, from a solution of blue vitriol 2 
ozs., to wat-er 1 gallon, as it will take up in dipping 
15 minutes; then run it through lime-water; this will 
make a beautiful sky-blue, of much durability ; it has now 
to be run through a solution of Prussiate of potash 1 oa., 
to water 1 gal. 



TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS OF INTEREST. 

INTEREST — Legal Rates allowed in each ofthb 

DIFFERENT STATES ; AlSO, SHOWING WHAT RATES MAY 

be contracted for, and collected ; and giving the 
Forfeitures when Illegal rates are Attempted to 
BE COLLECTED. — FiRST,then Six per cent is the Legal rate 
in the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, 
Connecticut^ Vermont, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, 
Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, {Eight per cent, is allowed 
in this State if agreed upon), Mississippi, Tennessee, Ar- 
kansas, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, 
and New Jersey, excepting, in Hudson and Essex Counties, 
and the city of Patterson, in this last State, Seven per cent 
is allowed, when either of the parties reside therein. 

Second ; Seven per cent, is the Legal rate in Michigan, 
New York, Minnesota, Wisconsin, South Carolina, and 
Georgia. 

Third ; Ten per cent, is the Legal rate in California ; 
Eight per cent, in Alabama and Texas, and as strange as it 
^may appear, in Louisiana only Five per cent. 

Maine and Vermont allow no higher than legai interest 
to be collected, even if agreed upon. And if paid it caa 
be recovered again, but no forfeiture. 

In New Hampshire, three times the legal rate is forfeited 
if unlawfully taken. 

Rhode Island, has no forfeiture, but allows legal interest 
to be collected, even on usurious contracts. 

In Connecticut, if usurious contracts are made, the priu- 
ciple only can be collected, to the lender, or, if collected, 
t-an be recovered, one-half to the informer, the other half to 
the State Treasury. 

New York voids usurious contracts ; but, if paid, only 
allows the excess over legal rates to be collected back. 

New Jersey, also, voids usurious contracts, reserving hktf 
to the Stdte, and half to the informer. 

Pennsylvania allows only legal interest to be collect-ed. 



INTERE&T DUPARTMENT. ^358 

Delewajre allows usurious contracts to be collectod, half to 
tti6 State and half to the prosecutor. 

Maryland allows only legal rates to be collected, 

Virginia voids the contract, and doubles the debt, half to 
the informer and half to the State. 

N'orth Carolina is the same as ^^irginia. 

South Carolina, Florida, and Alabama, allow forfeitures 
if only the interest, 

In Mississippi, although six per cent, is the legal interest 
on common debts, yet for money, actually borrowed, eight 
per cent is allowed, and although a rate may be agreed upon 
above what the law allows, simple interest may still be col- 
lected. 

Louisiana, although allowing only Jive per cent, where no 
stipulation is made, permits eight per cent, in agreement, and 
Bank interest to be six per cent. 

In Texas, although eight per cent, only is the legal rate, 
yet twelve may be contracted for, but if higher rates an 
agreed upon, none can be collected. 

Arkansas allows as high as ten per cent, on contract, but 
voids usurious contracts. 

Tennessee allows a fine to be collected not less in amount 
than is unlawfully taken. 

Kentucky only voids usurious excesses. 

Michigan and allow te7i per cent, to be contracted 

for, and void only excesses, if any are taken, 

Indiana allows only her legal rates to be contracted for, 
and may be collected back, if, in any case, it should be ob- 
tained. 

Elinois allows te'fi per cent, on money, actually bor^'owed. 
and only lawful rates can be collected. 

In Missouri, ten per cent, may bo contracted for, but for- 
feit» ten per cent, to the common school fund, in cases where 
more thai^lawful rates are obtained. 

Iowa permits ten per cent, to be agreed upon, and allows 
til illegal interest to be collected back 

—COPY RKJllT ^ErURFO. 



^)4 z^ chase's leBoiPSS* 

Wi8Con8in formerly permitted twelve per cent, to be fl^r'-eed 
upon, and those who paid more than lawful rates raight re- 
cover back three times the amount paid; but more recently 
allows only Jev jper cent., and makes all above that amount 
itsvnom, 

^ California and Minnesota allow any rate agreed upon to be 
collected. 

Tbe interest which the State allows to be collected on n-^tes 
drawn, " with use," not specifying tbe rate, is CHlled lepalj 
and that which some States allow to be contracted for, above 
the legal rate is lawful; but when a larger rate is taken, or 
agreed upon, it is called iisurioiis, and subjects the prson 
ftareeing for i% or receiving it, to the penalties^ or forfeitures^ 
as g'veu in the foregoing explanations. 

Any Agent, or other person, who may know of Any 
chanvres in their States from these rules, will confer a ffT^ 
on the Author by cooimuuicating the same. 



EXPLANATIONS OF THE INTEREST TABLES. 

EXAMPLE: 
/•esired to obtain the interest on 81,111 00, for 1 year 1 

»i»..ntha, and 27 days, at 6 per cent. ' 

Turning to the tables jou will see that the time is o-jven 
II) the k/t-hand column, the amounU on which you desire 
t.3 find the interest are given at the headi of the variou- 
ri>,hl-haud columns, the mm sotujiu is found ai the meetiu" 
of the lines to the right of the time, and down from the 
amount, as follows : 

The interest on «1,000, 1 year, at 6 per cent, |60 00 

" " " 100, " " « « « fiVin 

" " " 10," « « « .. 'fin 

" " " 1.' " " " •' .*.';;:: Z 

*• " " 1,000, 4 months, « « « 20 00 

" " " 100," « « « « 200 

" « " 10," « « « « in 

" " « 1," " « « « o" 

" " " 1,000,27 days," " « .* 450 

" " « 100 " " '" « u *'J^ 

" " « 10, « « " « .« 0^ 

" " ' " 1. " " « " " .'.*.'.'.'.' 00 

TT hole sum of interest sought, $93 §g 

In the same manner, proceed with any other amounts,' or 
»ny other time, or rate per cent.; and if for more than one 
year, multiply the interest for 1 year by the number of years 
tor whi;h the interest is sought; if for twenty, thirty sistv 
or ajiy other amount between ten and one hundred dollars 
JBultiply the interest on ten dollars, by the number of tens 
lu the amount, which gives you the whole sum of interest 
sought; the same rule holds good on hundreds, between 
one hundred and one thousand, and also, on thousands. 

To find interest at 5 per cent, taku one-half of the 10 
yer cent rate. 

And of course, the principle works the same on all ol 
>i»© tables, for the different rates of per cent 

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RULES FOR ADMINISTERING MEDICINES. HAVING 
REFERENCE TO AGE AND SEX. 

For an adult, (a person of 40 years,) the dose of commoa 
medicines is allowed to be about 1 drachm, 60 grains. 
Those, at 20 years, 2-3 " 40 " 
13 " 1-2 " 80 « 
" 7 " 1-3 " 20 « 

" 4 « 1-4 « 15 « 

" 3 " 1-6 •* 10 « 

** 2 " 1-8 " 7 to 8 *• 

" 1 " 1-12 " 6 " 

For babes, under 1 year, the dose should go down by 
months, at about the same rate as by yewrs, for those oven 
year. 

Again, for persons in advanced life, say from 60 years, the 
dose must begin to lessen about 5 grains, and from that on, S 
grains for each additional 10 years. 

Females, however, need a little less, generally than males. 

The above rules hold good in all medicines, except castor 
oil, the proportion of which cannot be reduced so T/it^cA, and 
opmm, and its various preparations, which muist b« reduced 
generally, in a little greaW proportion. 



(Wl) 



Explanations of Medical AbbreTlatlons, Apotll* 
ecaries Weights and Mca&urcs. 

One pound (lb.) contains 12 ounces. 
One ounce (oz.) " 8 drachms. 
One drachm (dr.) '' 3 scruples. 
One scruple (scru.) " 20 grains, (gr.) 

LIQtriD MEASURE. 

One pint contains 16 fluid ozs., 4 gills. 
One ounce " 8 " drs., 1-4 " 

One table-spoon ** about half a fluid ounce. 
One tea-spoon " " one fluid drachm. 
Sixty drops make about one tea-spoon. 
Wheneyer a tea, or table-spoon is mentioned, it means the 
same as it would to say spoonful ; the same of cup, in fluid 
measures ; but in dry measures, inhere a spoon, or spoonful 
Is mentioned, the design is that the spoon should be taken up 
moderately rounding, unless otherwise mentioned^ 



1 



9«^ 



EXPLANATION OF TECHNICAL TERMS FOUND IN 
MEDiCAL WORKS. 

Abdomen. .The lOwer front part of the body. 

Aromatic, , Spicy an<i fragrant drugs ; used to prevent gripp- 
ing of drastic purgatives. 

Aperient, .A gentle laxative or purgative. 

Aciditi/ , .Sourness. Acids neutralize alkalies. 

4/^a/iwe. .Having the properties of alkali. Alkalies neu- 
tralize acids. 

Antacid .Medicines which neutralize acids. 

Anfi, .Being prefixed to any word signifies against. 

Anfiscorl/ufic, .Alteratives for Scrofula; blood purifiers. 

Anfi.y/pki/ific, .lleniedy for Venerial diseases. 

Aihus, .White, hence whites ; fluor albus. 

Antisialof/ogue, .Keniedy for Salivation. 

Ant istptic , .Th'dt vfhich will prevent putrefaction. 

Antiphlofjiatic. .Remedy for fevt^r and inflammation 

Antispasmodic. .Remedy for Spasms, cramps, or convulsions. 

Anodyne. .A medicine which will allay pain and produce 
sleepiness. 

Alterative. .Medicines which will gradually restore healthy 
action. 

Astringent. .Medicines which constringe, draw up surfaces 
with which they come in contact ] used in Flood- 
ing, Diarrhea, Whites, &c. 

AhscesiS. .A cavity containing pus. 

Anemia . .\s \t\\0Mi blood, more properly blood without its 
proportion of iron, which gives it the bright red, 

Alvine . . Relating to the intestines. 

Aliment. .Any kind of food. 

Alimentary 6'a?ia/. .The entire passage through the wholo 
intestines from mouth to anus; the passage for 
the aliment. 

Albumtn. .An element found in both animal and vegetable 
substances, constituting the chief part of the 
white of eggs. 

iln^moniaZ, .Medicines containing antimony. 

(803) 



564 DR. chase's recipes. 

.i7ius..The external opening of tho rectum, lower inies^ 

tine. 
Antiperiodic . . That which cures periodie disecuses, as Ague^ 

Intermittent Fevers. 
Antidote . . An opposing medicine, used chiefly against poison. 
Adult. .A person of full growth. 
Aqua, .Water. 

Aqua Ammonia . . Water of Ammonia, 
Amenorrhea . . Absence of the menses. 
AntiemetiG, .That which will stop vomiting; against emesig. 
ArseniG . . A metal, the oxide of which is arsenious acid^ 

commonly called ratsbane. 
Abortion , .A premature birth, or miscarriage. 
Abortives, .That which will cause abortion. 
Abrasion, .Bruising the skin. 
Acetate. .A salt prepared with acetic acid. 
^cnVZ. .Irritating, biting. 

Adhesive , , Applied to sticking plasters, and to parts adher- 
ing from inflammations. 
Bairn ,. Aromatic and fragrant medicine, usually anoint 

ment. 
iSa/sa/n .. Resinous suostances, possessing healing proper 

ti-es. 
Basilicon . , An ointment containing wax, rosin, &c. 
Belladonna, .Nightshade. 
Bergamot . . Perfume made from the lemon peel. 
Bile, , A secretion from the liver. 
Bilious, .An undue amount of bile. 
Bi'tartrate of Potash, .Cream of tartar. 
Blanch , . To whiten. 
Bowels , , Intestines. 
Bolus. ,A large pill. 
i^roncAia .. Branches of the windpipe. 
Bronchitis. .Inflammation of the bronchial tubes, which lead 

into the lungs. 
Sro7icAocc7e. .Enlargement of the thyroid gland, enlarged 

neck. 
Butyric Acid. .An acid obtained from butter. 
Calcium , , The metalic basis of lims, (see fluor #par.) 
Calimu^ . . Sweet flag 
Calcareous. .A substance containino' chalk or lime. 



GLOSSARIAL BEPARTMSNT. 865 

Calcined, .Burned so as to be easily reduced to powder. 

Calculus. .Stone or gravel found in the bladder, eall ducts, 
kidneys, and ureters ; ducts which lead from the 
kidneys to the bladder. 

Callmis, .A hard bony substance or growth. 

Capsicmn. .Cayenne pepper. 

Catarrh . . Flow of mucus. 

Caihartic. .An active purgative. 

Catheter. .Tube for emptying the bladder. 

Cartninative . . An aromatic medicine. 

Caustic. .A corroding or destroying substance, as nitrate of 
silver, potash, &c. 

CUric Acid. .Acid made from lemons. 

Chronic . . Of long standing. 

Collapse . . A recession of the blood from the surface. 

Coma . . Stupor. 

Constipation. . CostivenesB. 

Contagious , . A disease which may be given to another by 
contact. 

Counter. .To work against, a^ counter-irritantj Spanish-flies, 
draughts to the feet, &c. 

Congestion. .Accumulation of blood in a part, unduly. 

Convalescence . .Improvement in health. 

Cuticle. .The outer or first portion of tlie skin, which con- 
sists of three eoat?. 

Datura Stramonium, , Stink- w-eed, jimpson, &c. 

Diaphoretics . .Medicines which aid or produce perspiration. 

Decoction . . To prepare by boiling. 

Dentrijice . . xi preparation to cleanse the teeth. 

Defecation . . To pass the feces, to go to stool. 

Dentition . . Act or process of cutting teeth. 

Desiccation . . To dry, act of drying. 

Demulcent. .Mucilaginous, as flax-seed and gum arable. 

Dermoid. .Resembling, or relating to the skin. 

Z>€^er^€?i^8. .Cleansing medicines, as laxatives and purga- 
tives. 

Diagnosis. .To discriminate disease. 

Diaphragm , . Midriff. 

Diarrhea . . Looseness of the bowels. 

Digest . . Assimilation or conversion of food into chjrme — to 
prepare medicines with continued, gentle heat. 



866 im. chase's eecipss. 

Discuttent. ,A medicine which will scatter or v.^d &wj^ 

tumors. 
DiuretiQ. .That which iDcrea.«^s the amount of urine. 
Diluted, . Reduced with water, as dilute alcohol, naif alcohJ 

and half water. 

Digitalis . . Fox-glove, a narcotic. 

Dorsal, .Having reference to the back. 

Douche, .A dash, or stream upon any part. 

Drachm, .Sixty grains, a tea-spoonful, or a tea-spoon ol 

Dulcamara. .The bitter-sweet, or woody nightshade. 

Dj/spepsia . . Difficult digestion. 

Dj/sjjhonia, .Difficulty in speaking. 

Dj/nuria, .Difficult or painful urination. 

Eau . .Water. 

Eau de Cologne, .Cologne water. 

Ehulition, .To boil. 

Eclct'.tic . . To choose. 

Eclectic Phj/sicia /I, .One who professes to be liberal 1a 
views, independent of party, and who (k %^t 
progress and reform in medicine. 

Effervesce, .To foam. 

Effloresceiice, .Redness of the general surface. 
Effete. .Worn out, waste matter. 

Elaterium, .Fruit of the wild cucumber, a hydragogue. 
Electuary — Medicine prepared at the consistence of houey 
Elixir. .A tincture prepared with more than one article. 
Emesiji, .The act of vomiting. 

Eraetic . . Medicines which produce emesis, vomiting. 
Emmenayogue . . A medicine which will aid or bring oa the 
menses. 

Z^??i<9^/€ni«. .Softenia.^ and screening medicines^ slippery- 

elm bark, flax-seed, gums, &c. 
fi'?nw7sibn. .Mucilage, from the emolients. 
Enema. .An injection by the rectum. 
Ennui. .Lassitude, dullness of spirit, disgust of condition, &«. 
Ejii. .Above, or over. 
Epidftmis . . Outer skin 

Epignstrinm. . Region of the pit of the stomach. 
A/>t7epsy, .Convulsion tits, with loss of sense for tne mt^ 

foaming at the mouth, and stupor. 



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Epigtottu .Trap-door cartilage at the root of the tongue, 

preventing food, or fluid, from entering the 

wind-pipe. 
Epistaxu, .Nose bleed. 
Ei'f/ot, .Spurred rye. 

Eructation. .Raising wind from the stomach, belching. 
Et-t^ption. .Viuii[>\es or blotches on the skin, or pustules 

from small-pox. 
Esrhar — A slough on the surface. 
Escharotic . . That which will destroy the flesh. 
EsscntlaL .Having reference to essences made from essen 

tial oils and alcohol. 
£ther..A volatile fluid. 
Etherial Oil. .Volatile oil. 
Eustathian Tube.. A tube leac|jng from the side of the 

throat to the internal ear. 
Eversion. .Turning inside out. 
Evacuation . . To discharge by stool, to haste-away. [See 

the remarks in the body of the work, on " Cos- 

tiveness. 
Evaporarion . . To escape in vapor. 
Exacerbation . .Violent increase in disease. 
Exanthemata. .Eruptive disease, as small-pox, scarlet fever, 

measles, &c. 
Excrement . .The feces, that which passes by stool. 
Excretion . . That which is thrown off, become useless. 
Excoriation . , Abrasion, to bruise the skin. 
i&xAa/en^5. .Vessels which throw out fluid upon the exter- 
nal or internal surface of the body. 
Ezpectorants . .That wliich produces, or aids a discharge of 

mucus from the bronchial tubes, or from the 

lungs. 
Excimon — To cut off an extremity 
Extremity . . Applied to the arms and legs, called upper a&d 

lower extremities. 
Exterpation . . To cut out, or to remove a part. 
Extract, .To take out, as a tooth, to extract a ball or anv 

foreign substance from a wound — an active 

principle obtained from vegetables. 
Express. .To press out juices. 
E»Qr€9Gcnc4 . , Ar unnatural growtii 



'diy!^ PR. CBASK'S RECIPES. 

fixtnxvasation . . A colieetioc at' blood into a cavity, or ub- 

der the skin. 
.Facial. .Belonging to, or having reference to the face. 

Farina. .Meal, or flour. From vegetables. 

Farcy, .A disease of the lymphatic vessels in the 8kifi oi 
the flanks of a horse. 

Famrs. .The pharynx and back part )f the mouth. 

Fascicttlar. .A bundle, in bundles. 

Feces. .That which passes by stool 

Febrile. .Having reference to fevera. 

Fehri/uge. .Medicines to drive away fever, producing per- 
spiration. 

Feion. , A deep abscess of the finger, involving the bone, be- 
cause under the periosteum, the membrana 
which edvers the bone. 

Femur. .The thigh bone. 

Femoral. .Relating to the tliigh. 

Ferment. .To oxidize, to effervesce, to work, as emptyings, 
beer, wine, cider, &c. 

Fermentation, .To sour, to decompose, both heat and moist 
ure being necessary to keep it up. 

Ferri Jyfmaf^rra. .Iron-fiUngs, very valuable in female de* 
bility, and for males of a weak habit of body. 

Ferrum. .Iron. 

Ftver, .That which '"Old School Physicians'^ call a disease, 
whilst another class (the Thorasonians) say it 
is an effort of nature to throw off disease ; but 
Eclectics take it as an indication that the circu- 
lating medium is not regular, and go to work at 
once to equalize the circulation, by the use of 
diaphoretics, combined with tonics and deter- 
gents, which soon sets all to-rights ; f^jr fever 
and perspiration cannot long exist together. 

fHher. .To strain through paper made for that purpose 

Fibre.. A very small, thread-like s^ibstanee of aniuial oi 
vegetable matter. 

Fibula. .The smallest bone of the leg below the knee. 

Fistula. .An ulcer. 

Flaccid. .Flabby, soft, relaxed. 

Flabby . . Loose and soft to the touch. 

Flatus. .To iuJBbte the stomach or bowels with gw. 



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Fluoric Acid.. A fluid obtained from the fluor spar oul 

with sulphuric acid. 
Flatulence, .Gas in the stomach. 
Flooding. .Uterine hemorrhage. 
Fluor . . An increased discharge, to flow 
Fluor Spar. .Fluoride of calcium. 
Flkor Alhus . , White flow, leucorrhea, whites, &o« 
Flux . . To flow, diarrhea. 

Fnction . . Rubbing with the dry hand, or dry coarse cloth. 
Fumvjate , . To smoke a room, or any article needing to bo 

cleansed. 
Fundament . . The anus. 
Formula . . Medical prescription. 
Fulminatmg Powder . . An explosive preparation, used in 

fireworks. 
Functu/n . . The particular action of an organ, as the function 

of the stomach, liver, lungs, heart, &c. 
Fungus . . Spongy flesh in wounds, proud-flesh, a soft cancer, 

which bleeds upon touching its broken surface 
Fusion . . To fuse, to melt. 

Furor . . Very violent delirium, not accompanied by fever. 
Galhanum . . A resinous gum, from a genus of plants. 
Genus. .Family of plants, a group, all of a class, or nature. 
G^a^?.. Bile. 
Gall Bladder .. A bag which receives the gall, or bile, 

through ducts, from the liver, delivering it to 

the stomach, in health, through the duct called 

communis choledochus. 
Gall Stones. .RhTd biliary concretions found in the gall 

bladder, and sometimes causing death, from not 

being able to pass through the ductus com* 

munis. 
Galla. .The gall-nut, an excrescence found upon the oak. 
Gallic Acid. .An acid from the nut-gall. 
Galipot. .A glazed jar, used for putting up gummy extracts. 
Galvanic. .Having reference to galvanism. 
Gamboge , . A drastic purgative, unless combined with aro- 

matics. 
Gangrene. .Partial death of a part, often ending in entire 

mortification of the part, amd sometimes of the 

whole body. 

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S70 I>B. CHASITS RECIPiSa. 

Ganglion. ,iL knot, or lump on tendons, Iigamentfi| ot 

nerves. 

Gaseous. .Having the nature of gas. 

Gastric, .Of, or belonging to the stomach. 

Gastric Juice . . Secretion of the stomach. 

(?</s/r/7/8. . Inflammation of the stomach. 

Ga&tro(lynia» .Pain in the stomach, sometimes with <»p*uitr 
of the stomach, 

Gehitine. .Isinglass. 

Gelatmous, .Like jelly. 

Genifdls. .BeloLging to generation, the sexual organs. 

Gentian, .An European root, possessing tonic properties. 

Genu, .The knee. 

Genuflexion, .Bending the knee, kneeling. 

Germ, .The vital principle, or life-spark. 

Gestation, .To be pregnant. 

Giund. .Secreting organs having ducts emptying into cavi- 
ties, which often become obstructed, causing 
them to enlarge; hence, the enlargement of tnc 
thyroid gland in the neck, causing bronchoceie. 

Glans, .A jj-land. 

G/ej't, .Chronic gonorrhea. 

Globules, .Small round particles,Tiaving special reference to 
part-icles oi^ the red part of the blood. 

Olossa .The tongue; a smooth tongue. 

(floss. To give a lustre ; to comment; to write or make ex. 
p lunations. 

Glossarist, .A writer of glosses or comments. 

Glossary ., An explanation of words. 

Glossarial, .Containing explanations. 

Glossitis. .Inflammation of ihe tongue. 

Glottis, .The opening into the wind-pipe, at the root of the 
tongue, larynx, covered by the epiglottis. 

Gluten, .Coagulable lymph, white of an e^^^^ a principle ic 
wheat and other vegetables. 

Glutton, .One who eats excessively. 

Gonorrhea . . An infectious discharge from the genital or- 
gans. 

Goti^. .Painful inflammation of the joints of the toes, or of 
the fingers. 

Oranvle. .A small pai^ticle of healthy matter, uot pu& 



OliOSSARIAL DEPAaTMENT. ^71 

Granulation . . Healing up of an ulcer or wound with healthy 

matter. 
Gravel. .Crystaline particles in the urine. 
GreeU' Sickness. .Chlorosis, debility requiring iron. 
Griping. .Grinding pain in the stomach, or bowels, 
Gutta, .One drop, drops. 
Gutta Percha, .l)ried juice of a genus of trees Isonandra 

gutta. 
Guttural. .Relating to the throat. 
Gi/mnasium . . A place for sportive exercise, which is very 

valuable to those who cannot or will not take 

exercise for the sake of dollars and cents. 
Gt/psum, .Sulphate of lime, more commonly called plaster 

of Paris, because first introduced from that 

pkice. 

Sabit. .Good or bad habit, constitutionally, or prejudicially 
predisposed to do some particular thing ; medi- 
cally, as consumptive habit, rheumatic habit, &c 

Hema , . Blood, prefixed to other words. 

Hematemesis . . Hemorrhage from the stomach 

Hematuria. .Hemorrhage from the bladder 

Hemoptysis. .Hemorrhage from the lungs. 

Hemorrhoids, .Piles, bleeding piles. 

Uenba7ie. .Hyosoyviinns, 

Hereditar?/ . . Disease from parents. 

Hernia. , Rupture, which permits a part of the bowal to pro* 
trude. 

Herpes . . Disease of the skin. 

Hiera Picra. .A medicine containing aloes. 

Humerus . . The single bone of the upper arm. 

Humeral. .Pertaining to the arm. 

Humors. .The fluids of the body, excluding the blood. 

Hydrayogues. .Medicines which produce watery discharges 

used in dropsy, as elaterium. 
Hydiargyrum. . Metalic mercury, quicksilver, Doctors' nam« 

for calomel. 

Hydrocyanic Acid. .Prussic acid, nothing more poisonous. 

Hydrofluoric Acid. .Same as fluoric acid. 

Hygea. .Health.- 

Ify^/taie. . Piesei ving health by diet and other precautions. 



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Hypo. .Signifies low, a low state of health, more annoying 
to the sufferers than to their friends, who are 
constaiotly boring them about it ; called hysterics 
.n women, (from hysteria, the womb or uterus,) 
but blues only, when it gets hold of men ; they 
como from the same canse, general debility 
takes a strong remedy, iron, as medicine, 

Bi/poglottis . . Under the tongue. 

Ifj/steria. .The uterus, (womb,) also disease, depending up- 
on, or caused by uterine irregularities 

Hysteritis, .Inflammation af the uterus. 

Ichor . , An acrid, biting, watery discharge from ulcers, often 
corroding, eating the surface. 

Icte7*us. .Jaundice, a bilious disease, which shows itaelf by 
yellowness of the eyes and skin. 

Icterus Alhus . . Chlorosis, whites, &g. 

Ignition. .To catch on fire, fvom Ignis, fire. 

IJeihii . . Cholic in the small intestines. 

Iliac, .Situated near the flank. 

Iliac Region, .Sidiss of the abdomen between the ribs and 
the thighs. 

Imbecile, .One of weak mind, imbecility. 

Imbibe, .To absorb, to drink. 

Imbricate. .To over-lap, as tiles on a house 

Immerse , . To plunge under water. 

Immobile, .Immovable, as stiff joints. 

Imperforate, .Without a natural opening. 

Imperviaus, .Closed against water. 

Impetigo . . Tetter. 

Imporiderable , .Not having weight, light or electricity. 

Impoverished, .Exhausted vitality. 

Impotence, .Sterility, not being able to produce 

Impregnation, .The act of producing. 

Incision , . To cut. 

Incombustible, .Incapability of being burned. 

Incompatibles , .Medicines which ought not to be mixed, oii 
given together. 

Incontinence, , IS ot being able to hold the natural excre- 
tions. 

Incorporate . . To mix medicines together. 

Incubation, ,To hatch eggs, slow development of disease 

[ndicaticni, .That wliieb shows what ouixht to he douf* 



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indigenous, .Peculiarity of a country, or of a small sectida 
of country, applied to disease, plants, &c. 

[iidiyestion . . Dyspepsia. 

i5ii^c»/ew^, .Slow in progress, applied to ulcers and tumors^ 
which are slow and with but little or no pain« 

Induration, .Hardening of any part of ttio system by dis- 
ease. 

Infectious . . Communicable disease, from one to another. 

hijirmary . . Where medicines are distributed gi-atuitously 
to the poor ; but more recently some physicians 
have got to calling their offices infirmaries. 

(njlammation . . Attended with heat, redness, swelling, ten- 
derness, and often with throbbing. 

(njiatus , .To distend, to blow up with wind, or to fill up 
with gas, as the stomach, bowels, &c. 

Influenza . . A disease afi"ecting the nostrils, throat, &c., of 
a catarrhal nature. 

Lifusion . . Medicines prepared by steeping in water, not to 
boil. 

IftquinaL .In the groin. 

Ingredient, .One article of a compound mixture. 

inhalation , , To dra^ in the breath. 

Injection, .x\ny preparation to be introduced by the rectum 

Inorganic , , Matter not having organs, all alike, as metals. 

Insaniti/ . . Derangement of the mind. 

Insertion , , The attachment of muscles and tendons to the 
bones, which they move by contraction. 

Inspiration, .The act of drawing in the breath. 

Inspissation , .To thicken by boiling, to make what is called 
the concentrated extracts, desiccation. 

Instinct. , An involuntary action, as closing the eyelids, 
breathing, &c., natural perception ot animals. 

Integument, , A covering, the skin. 

Inter, .A prefix denoting between. 

Intercostal, .Between the ribs. 

Intermission , , Time between paroxysms of fever, or other 
disease. 

Intermittent Fever , , Fever which comes on at regular peri- 
ods, between which periods there is little, and 
sometimes no fever, an interval. 

internal, ,V^on the inside. 

Interosseous, .Between the bones. 



374 DR. chase's recipes. 

Interval, .The period between the paroxysms cf periodk»J 
diseases, as ague, &c. 

^nfestines, .The contents of the abdomen. 

Intestinal 6'ana/. .Embracing the duodenum (the first di 
vision below the stomach,) the jejunum, (the 
the second division of the small intestines,) the 
ileum, (the third and longest portion of the 
small intestines,) the secum, (the first portion 
of the large intestine,) the colon, (the large in- 
testine,) and the rectum, (the lower trap-door.) 

Intolerance, .In medicine, applied to tlieeye, as intolerance 
of light; to the stomach, as intolerance of food. 

Inversw Uteri, .Inversion of the uterus. 

Inversion . . To turn the inside out. 

/rrc(/uct6^. .Applied to hernia, and to joints which have 
been put out and cannot be put back to theii 
place. 

Ischuria, .Not being able to pass the urine. 

/sswe .. Sore made as a counter-irritant, to draw irritation 

from a diseased part. 
Itch, .Psora, scabies, a catching eruption of the skin. 
Itis, .An addition to a word denoting inflammation, as pleu 

ritis, pleurisy, &c. 
Ivory Black . . Animal charcoal. 
Jaundice, .A disease* caused by the inactivity of the liver 

or ducts leading from ii. 
Jellj/ . . Gelatine in a fluid state, as applied to medicine. 
Jesuits Bark . . First nam»^ of Peruvian bark, from its h^,ving 

been discover*id bv Jesuit missionaries. 
Jwjlar. .Applied to veins of the throat. 
JuJuOe., An East India frui\\ something like a plunc^ %:,j4 

in coughs, but of doubtful reputation. 
Kali, . Potash. 
Kelp , . Ashes of sea- weed. 
Knfjt, .Surgeons tie their knot hv passing the threau ♦^in** 

through the loop, which prevents sUppiiijj'. 
Labia , . Lips. 

Lahia Pudendi, .Lips, or sides of the vulva^ 
Labial, .Of, or belonging to the lips. 
Labor, .Child-birth, parturition. 



0L08SAR1AL departmen:?. 875 

Laboraiory . . A place of chemical experiments, or opera- 
tions, see Frontispiece. 

LancinafiiKj , .Sharp, piercing, as lancinating pain. 

LarynyeaL ,W the larynx. 

X4artjnx, .The upper part of the throat. 

LarynytfiH . . Inflammation of the throat. 

Latent, .Hidden, as latent heat, see the remarks connected 
with steam boiler explosion. 

Las'iitude, .Weakness, a feeling of stupor, 

Lajrathe. .A very gentle cathartic. 

LHjjtutulr in, A^owdar made from the leptandria rirginica, 
black root, Culvers physic. 

Leucorrliea, .Fluor albus, whites, chlorosis, &c. 

Leuiyate, .To reduce to a very fine powder. 

Litjdfure, .A thread, to ligate, to tie with a ligature 

Looated, .Fixed, seated u-pon some organ. 

Lmyua, .The tongue. 

Ltni/uist. .A speaker, fluency, one who understands difl'er- 
ent languages. 

Lim'ment, .A fluid preparation to be applied by friction. 

Litlioatrijjtic, ,K medicine reported to dissolve gravel, or 
stone in the bladder. 

Lithotomy . . The operation of cutting, to take out stone of 
tl^e bladder. 

Liver, .The largest gland, and largest organ of the body. 

Livid, .A dark colored spot on the surface. 

Loins, .Lower part of the back. 

Lotion, .A preparation to wash a sore. 

Lubricate. .To soiYen with oil, or to moisten with a fluid. 
The internal organs are covered with a mem- 
brane which throws out a lubricating fluid, en- 
abling them to move easily upon each other. 

L^ite. .A past'fi with which to close chemical retorts, the ca- 
sein, curd of milk, is used for that purpose. 

iiyw^vA. .A thin colorless fluid carried in small vein-liko 
vessels called lymphatics. 

Ma cerate. .To steep, soften by soaking. 

Mai. .Bad, mal practice, bad practice, not according to sci- 
ence. 

Malformation. .Irregular, unnatural formation. 

Malaria. .Bad gases, causing disease, supposed to arise froai 
decaying vegetable matter. 



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Malignant. .A pestilential, and generally dangerous (lis 
ease, as the Cholera of 1832. 

Mamma, .The female breast, which is composed of gland? 
that secrete the milk, upon the principle that 
the liver secretes bile ; each organ for its spe- 
cific purpose; but secreting organs, or glands 
are the more liable to get obstructed, thus pro- 
ducing disease. 

Mastication , . The act of chemng. 

Masturbation, .Excitement, by the hand, of the genital or- 
gans. The most injurious, health-destroying, 
soul-debasing, of all evils introduced into the 
world; because iLi frequent repetition draw? 
very heavily upon ihe nervous system, prostra- 
ting the energies, destroying the memory, to- 
gether with the life-principle, as well as th* 
principles of muialitv which ought to govern 
every human being, between himself and his* 
Cieator. 

Maturity , .To become ripe, to an Ive at adult age, beyond 
furihor growth. 

Materia, .Matter, healthy substance. 

Materia Medica, ,^£he science of medicine, and medical 
combinations. 

Maturation, .Formaiiofi of pus, unhj^aithy matter. 

Matrix, .The womb. 

Meconium, .The first pdaKshu-cs after birth. 

Medical, .Relating to meaiane. 

Medicated, .Having mediciuo in its pieparation. 

Metnhrane,,A thin lining, or coveiing, skin-like, as the 
peritoneum, whic4i lines ihe cavity of the bow- 
els and covers the intesvinja ; and the perios- 
teum, membrane, which conois the bones, &c 

Medicament, .A remedy ; hence, medicauentum, the Welch 
remedy for every disease. 

Medicinal . , Having medical properties. 

Medullary, .Like marrow, brain-like. 

MeL , Honey. 

Menstruation, .Monthly flow. 

Mentha Piperita, .Peppermint, 

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GLOSSARIAL DEPARTMENT. 877 

MeUlfiuous. .Flowing with honey, sweetness, del^3iotis; akin 
to lucious, juicy mellowness. 

Menorrhagia. .Excessive flooding. 

Micfurition . . To urinate, to pass the urine. 

Mldicifcnj . . Art of assisting at child-birth. 

JbT/ViW/i. .About one drop, one-sixtieth of a fluid drachm 

Minimum, .Th« smallest, the smallest dose, the opposite it 
maximum. 

Modus Operandi. .The way in which medicines act, appli- 
cable also to any action, the way of doing it. 

i)[/orii(/. .Unhealthy. 

Morbus. .A disease ; hence, cholera morbus, disease of the 
bowels. 

Mordant. .That which fastens the colors in dyeing, as alum, 
cream of tartar, argal, vitriols, tin, liquor, &c. 

Mucus . . Animal mucilage. 

Mucus Membrane. . See remarks under the head of ^' Inflam- 
mation,'' in the body of the work. 

Mucilage . . A watery solution of gum, or elm bark, &c. 

Muriatic. .Having reference to sea salt. 

Muriatic Acid. .Marine acid, often called hydrochloric acid. 

Muscle , . A bundle of fibers. 

Muscular. .Having reference to the muscles, strong built. 

Mj/rrh . . A resinous gum. 

N^arcotic, .Stupefying medicines, producing sleep. 

N'ares . . The nostrils. 

Nasal. .Of the nose. 

Nausea. .Sickness of the stomach, may increase until vom- 
iting takes place, or it may not. 

Nauseant. .That which produces nausea. 

Navel. .Center of the abdomen, 

Necros. .Death. 

Necrosis . , Death of a bone. 

Nephros . . The kidney. 

Nephritis , . Inflammation of the kidney or kidneys. 

A^ervoi^. .Easily excited. 

Nervine. .That which will allay, or »oothe nervous excite 
ment. 

Neuralgia. .Pain in nerves. 

Nitre. .Saltpeter. 

Nocturnal. .Occurring in the night. 



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Ntfrate.. ,'Nitnc acid combined with alkalies or alkaline 

salts. 

Normal. .Tu a natural and health condition. 

A7yx^/'W7?i. . A medical preparation. 

A^othm. .Spurious, illegitimate, a bastard. 

Nuflus. »}s\xde, without clothing. 

Nutrition . . Nourishment. 

Nutritious . . Nourishing. 

Obesitj/ . .Corpulence, excess of fat, or flesh. 

Obstetrics, .The science of midwifery. 

Ochre, .An ore ot iron. 

Oculus. .The eye. 

OriUist, .An eye-doctor. 

Olcajinous, .An oily substance. 

Omentum. .The caul, perituneal covering of the laf'/Cstines. 

Opociti/ . .To obstruct light. 

Opaque. .Not transparent, inability to see tliiougb. it. 

Ojtthalmos. .The eye. 

Opthalmia . . Disease of the eye, inflamiiidtion of tid eye. 

Ojfiate, .An anodyne. 

Oryan, .A part of the body, which Iaus a, *.tc<f\ii ifj/d, to 

perform, called the function ut oi^^ddiy u* the 

stomach, lungs, womb, A-o. 

Organic, .Bodies made up of org&iifl. 
Organism, .Vital organization. 
Organized, .Furnished with life. 

Orgasm, .The closing excitement of f;ejua! c^pnoctioR 
Origin, .The point of commeucei/ient. 
Orijice. , An opening. 
Oh Tince. . Mouth of the womb, or uterus. 
0:<seous, .A bony substance. 

Ossification, .To become bone; from ost, or osi^o^^ i^ iMNiit 
or like a bone. 

Ostalgia, .Pain in a bone. 

Osteoma. .Tumor, like bone. 

Ostitis. .Inflammation of a bone or boiws. 

Otic. .Haring reference to the ear. 

Otitis. .Inflammation of the ear. 

Otorrhea . . Discharge from the ear. 

Ova, . An egg, made up of little eggs ■""" 



Ovaria . • Testes ; most generally applied to the female ; fo» 
male testes, two egg-shaped bodies, (made up 
of little particles, or eggs,) haviug an attach- 
ment to the uterus in the broad ligaments, 
which support that organ, having tubes, or 
ducts, opening from them into the uterus, 
called Fallopian tubes, from the man^s name 
who first gave a description of them. One of 
these particles is thrown off at each menstrual 
flow. 
Oviparous. Jiirds, or any animals that produce their young 

from eggs, or by egg's. 
Ovum . . An e^^^. 

OjuIic AckL .An acid found in sorrel, very poisonous. 
Oxide, .A combination of oxygen with a metal, or fluid as 
oxygen combining with vinegar-fluid, forms 
vinegar, oxygen combining with iron, fovrng 
oxide of iron, rust of iron, kc. 

Oxygen, .One of the elements of the air, an acidifv^jg 
(souring) priuciple, and an element (a parti^^l . 
or part j of water. I 

Oxi/meL.A pre|:)aranon of vinegar and honey, from meij 
houey. 

Ozena . . Feted ulcer of the no«e, or fetid discharge from 
the nose. 

Pabulum, .Food ; aliment. 

I'uiL .A cushion. 

I*<jiriative, .To afford relief, only. 

Palpitation. .Unhealthy, or unnatural beating of the heart. 

Pan . . As a prefix, iuean.s all. 

Panacea. .Remedy fur all diseases, consequently (speaking 
ironically) any patent medicine. 

Paralj/sis. .Loss of motion, numb palsy. 

PanuH, .Labor ; the young when brought forth. 

Parturition. . Child-birth. 

Paroj.ysm. .A fit of disease occurring at certain periods, 

ParuniicaL .Occurring at a certain time. 

Petal. .A fiuur leaf, jls rose leaves, &c. 

Phthists. . A wasting, consumption. 

Pathos .. A dhkiViiie. 

Pat}iolofjj/ . .The doctrine of disease. 



880 DR. chase's recipes. 

pectoral. .Pertain lug to the breast. 

Pedilxmum .A foot-bath. 

Pendulous. .To hang down 

Penis. .The male organ of generation, 

Pepwie 4 peculiar substance in the stomach. Thich aids di 
gefetjon. 

Peptic. .Digestive; hence, dyspeptic, not digesting. 

PercoUition. .To run, or draw through some substance, straining 

Ti'eriwnitoinj . .To give a previous notice, as premonitory symp 
toms. 

Pern. .Around, a covering. 

Pericardium. .Around the heart, sac containing the heart. 

Peiicarditis . .Inflammation of the pericardium. 

Penn..A testicle, male organs, corresponding with testes, m 
females, with this difference, however, that with 
males they are upon the outside, whilst with females 
they are upon the inside of the body. 

Perineum . . That part between the anus and organs of generation 
or genitals. 

Penneal. .Relating to the region of the perineum. 

Period. .A certain time. 

Pen-iodicity. .Returning at a certain time. 

Periosteum. .The membrane which covers all bones. 

Per.^pectite View . . As it appears to the eye at a certain distance 

Perturbation. .To disturb. 

Perversion . . An unhealthy change ; to change from its proper oi 
natural course. 

Pessary. .That which will support, or hold up the womb, in pro- 
lapsus ; see our remarks on *' Female Debility." 

Phagedenic. .An eating and fast-spreading ulcer. 

Pharnmcy. .The art of combining and preparing medicines. 

Phlegm. .Mucus from the bronchial tubes, and throat. 

Phlogistic. .Tendencv to inflammation. 

Phosphorus . . An inlfammable and luminous substance, prepared 
from urine and bones. 

Phosphate . .V\io%^\\ov\q, acid in combination with metals, as 
phosphate of iron, phosphate of lime, &c. 

Pik^. .Tumors at, or in the anus ; sometimes protruding ; often 
attended with hemorrhage, then called hemorrhoids. 

Piperine. .A preparation from black pepper, considered valuable 
in ague. 

^lacenta. .After-birth, which has a connection to the womb, and 
to the child, during pregnancy; but is naturally 
tlirow^n off" by the violent contractions of the womb, 
at this period, there being no furtlier use for it. Oh. 
the wisdom of our Creator, how glorious to contem- 
plate! Everything adapted to the necessities of the case 

PletJiora. .Oyer fullness; if healthy, causing obesity, corpci 
laiice. 

Pleuritis. .Inflammation of the pleura, pleuiisy 

Pneumon, .The lungs. 



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Pleura,. TliG serous membrane covering the lungs, and folded 
upon the sides. 

Pneumonia. .Inflammation of the lungs. 

PodophyUin . . A powder made from the podophyllum peltatum, 
mandrake root. 

Pomum. .The apple; hence, pomace, mashed apple. 

Potassium. .The basis of potash. 

Potus. .A drink ; hence, potion, a medicated drink. 

Predisposition. .A tendency to a ceitain disease. 

lyegnanci/ . .Being with child. 

Frogiwrn. .The art of f/ues»ing how a difieage will terminate. 

Pj-ulapsus. .A falling 

Prouipms Ard. .Falling of the anus. 

Provapms Uteri. .Falling of the uterus. 

Prostration. .Without strength. 

Prumate. .A compound with prussic acid. 

PrusdG ^ei(2. .Hydrocyanic acid; one of, or the most viruleni 
poison in existence. 

P5<>m. .The itch. 

Pubes. .The prominence at ' anifc"^'^^ front part of the tody. 

/^drif^/. .Full growth; anf,^^)!.^; perfection. 

Pubic. .Having reference^^(.e \^^ region of the pubes. 

Pudendum. .The femal J^jj^e s of generation. 

Puer. .A boy, or chilc'^^^j^^ 

Puerpera. . A woman * • just brought forth a child ; hence, 
puerperal ft^ ^f ever at, or soon after child-birth. 

Pulmo. .A lung. 

Pulmmiitis. .Inflammation of the lung or lungs. 
, Pulmonai-y . .B.Q\dX\TLg Xo the lungg, as pulmonary balsam, pul- 
monic wafers, &c. 

Pulvi9,,A powder; hence, pulverize, to make fine. All these 
words show how heavDy we have drawn upon other 
languages, for our own, consequently, the necessity 
of studying the Latin and Greek, to properly under- 
stand ours. 

P^pil. .The dark circle in the eye. 

Purgative. .A gentle cathartic. 

Ptcs. .Unhealthy matter. 

Pustule. .A slight elevation, having pus. 

Putrefaction. .To decompose, by fermentation. 

Putnd. .Rotton; decomposed. 

Pyrolignious Acid. .An acid obtained from wood ; the essence of 
smoke ; if a little of it is put into a barrel with meat 
in the brine, it smokes it without trouble. I think 
gill to the barrel sufficient, perhaps a little less will 
do. It is obtained by inserting an old gun-barrel or 
other iron tube into a coal-pit, near the bottom, wlxgg 
burning ; it condenses in the tube and drops from w 
outer end into a dish, then bottled for use. 

Quas^iu. .A bitter tonic ; the chips of the wood are used. 

-frifl^X .Tie ai>ia? 



BachitU, .Rickets, bending of the spine, and soraetimea thelon| 
bones of the limbs ; may be also enlargement of thi 
head, bowels, and the ends of the long bones 

RadiuB. .The bone of the upper arm. 

Rulial. .Having reference to the upper arm. 

Radyited, .Diverging from a centre. 

Eddix, .A root. 

Ecimiis. .A branch. 

Ramification. .To branch out. 

Rancidity. .Kancid, stale; applied to oil, fat, butter, Ac. 

Ri.sh. .A redness of tlie skio, in patches. 

Rdtshane. . Arsenious acid, arsenic. 

Rattle. .Noise of air passing through mucus, as in croup. 

Reaction. .To return, after recession. 

Recesdon. .Striking in, the blood, or disease, going to the intei 
nal organs. 

Rectum. .The lower portion of the intestines. 

Redaction. .To set a fracture, or to return a hernia. 

Refrigerant. .A a)oliDg hi^-ulci "^. or drink. 

Regimen. .Regulation of diet a , Qf tl^i^s* ^ preserve health, or 
to cure disease. ' 

2?€%)«e. .Recurrence of disease • tjjj,^^ improved appearance, 
wiiich is generally woi ^^^g' the first attack. 

Relaxation. .Losing the healthy t<\v,p p^e ^ P^^' ^^ ^^^ whole 
system. ^ 

Bepletion . .Yw\\r\t&^. •^o chir 

lieproduction . .Generation, procreation 

Reajriration . .To breathe, including both inspiration and expira 
tion. 

Resolvtinn. .To return to health, applied to inflammations. 

Retching. .An effort to vomit. 

Reteutum. .Delay of the natural passage of the urine or fei^^. 

Rev^uLiion. .To draw away disease, as draughts, or blisters, irri- 
tating plasters, &c. 

^/tei^wato^. .Intiamniation of the fibrous tissue, mostly con- 
fined to the large joints. 

Rcini Oleum. .Castor oil. 

Uigtn'. .Coldness, with shivering. 

RochdU tSalts. .A mixture of tartarate of potash and soda. 

Rubefacients. .i\Iedir ines which cause redness of the skin, as mus- 
tard, raddish leaves, &c. 

Rupture. .Hernia; by some, called a breach. 

Haccharine. .The properties ol sugar. 

Saliva. The secretion of the mouth, spittle; hence, salivation, 
an increased flow ot saliva. 

Salt. .A compound of acid with an alkali, or metal. 

Saltpetre. .Nitrate of potash. 

S(d'(hrio/af. .Climate favorable to health. 

iStinative. .A curative medicine. 

Sanguis, .Blood. 



GLOSSARIAL DEPARTMENT. 

Sar^mdnio^^ .Blood}^— Sangnineons discharge as bloody-flux 

Santomii,.\ powder obtained from wonn-sced, 
8arcmia. .A lleshy tumor, generally of a cancerous nature 
8cn/ms. .The ilcli. ^ ^ ^ 

.Sc.irr/tus..A hard tumor, generally of a cancerous natuio. 
Ser",fra, .A constitutional tendency to disease ot the glands 
Scrotum, .Tlie sac which encloses the testick^s. 
Sedatice. .To depress, the opposite of stimulation. 
Seidlitz. .A village of Bohemia; hence, seidhtz powders, whict 

originated at that place. 
S':/?rmi«.. Mustard; hence, sinapisms, mustard plasters 
^^>^Vi. .Death of a part, allowing it to come out trom the healthy 

Stimulant. .^A medicine calculated to to excite an increased and 

healthy action. 
5^V7>^w;.. To Slop bleeding. , ,i i i 

Smhe-Boot,. Commiyw or Virginia snake-root; but black snake- 

root is the black-cohosh. 
*Ste«7».. Cramp, or convulsion. , . t i.i. 

Sf>e,cifi-c A remedv having a uniform action, producing health 
Snerm Seminal fluid, now more often called the semen, seed. 
Spermatic. .Having reference to the testicles, or ovaries. 
Spina. .The back-bone; Itence, spine. 
Stitch . . A spasmodic pain. 
i8^//na.. The mouth. 

Stomatitis. .Inflammation of the mouth. , , u ^ ««^» 

StranguUition. .To Q\io^Q\ also applied to hernia which cannot 

be reduced. 
5u(?or. .Sweat; hence, sudorific, to sweat. 
Sxdphate. .A combination with sulphuric acid. 
Sulphuric Acid. .Oil of vitriol. 
Suppression. .An arrest of a natural discbarge. 
Suppuration . . To produce pus. 
Sympathy.. To be atfeeted by the disease of another organ, as 

sick- headache from overloading the stomach. 
Symptom.. A. &iirn of disease. 
Syncope. .To swoon, fiiinting. ^ 

SyphiUs. .Di-sease from sexual connection with those who have 

venerial disease. 
Fannie Acid. .An acid from oak bark, an astringent. 
Ta7'taric Acid. .An acid from cream of tartar, found in grapes. 
2'ermmu3.. DmcMlty and pain at stool, wilh a desire to go to 

stool otten. 
Tent. .A roll of lint or cloth to keep wounds open until they 

heal from the bottom. 
Tefites Testicles. 
27^m2)ei/^ic<. .Relating to a knowledge of treating disease, the 

curative action of medicine. 
Tfi^'oa. .The chest. 
TVJta. ,Thd laug© boae of the lower leg 



3S^ DR. CHASK 8 RECIPKS. 

TomUs. .Glands on each side of the throat. 

Trachea . /\^\xQ, windpipe. 

Translation . . Disease going to some other organ. 

THturaU. .To rub into a powder. 

Tumor. .An enlargement of a portion, usually of the external 

parts. 
Ulna. Smail, or under bone of the arm. 
Uinbilicus . .The naval. 

Ureter. .Duct leading from the kidney to the bladder. 
Urethra. .Duct leading out from the bladder. 
Uterus . . The womb. 

Vagina. .The passage from the womb to the vulva. 
Venery. .Sexual indulgence. 

Vermifuge. .Having the property to destroy worms. 
Virus. .Contagious poison. 
Vulva. .External opening of the female genitals 
WJiites . . Fluor albus 
Yeast . . The principle of fermentation 
ZtneiSulpMs, .Sulphate of Zinc, white vitriol. 



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